Eh bien nous voilà enfin parvenus à notre idée ultimement brillante : et si on mettait les talibans dans le gouvernement (afghan) ?

Eh oui, les lumières occidentales ne s’éteignent jamais. Même en marge du “congé pré-électoral”, ce phare de la démocratie américaniste qu’est le Congrès US, circa 2006-sur-la-fin, continue à avoir des idées.

Le sénateur Frist (leader de la majorité républicaine au Congrès) en visite en Afghanistan, a déduit que la meilleure façon d’être quitte de la guérilla des talibans serait, après tout, de faire entrer les talibans dans le gouvernement afghan. Vous admirerez la parfaite rotondité dans la façon de boucler la boucle, depuis le 7 octobre 2001 et l’attaque en Afghanistan par les forces US.

Compte-rendu de la trouvaille, de nos sources internes:

«U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government. Frist said there are too many Taliban fighters with too much popular support to be defeated by military means. “You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government,” Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. “And if that's accomplished we'll be successful.” Frist said asking the Taliban to join the government was a decision to be made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

» Sen. Mel Martinez, a fellow Republican from Florida accompanying Frist, said negotiating with the Taliban was not “out of the question” but that fighters who refused to join the political process would have to be defeated. “A political solution is how it's all going to be solved,” he said. Frist, who said he will announce in about a month if he plans to run for the U.S. presidency, said he had hoped the United States would be able to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan soon. But the 20,000 U.S. troops are still needed. “We're going to need to stay here a long time,” Frist said. There appears to be an “unlimited flow” of Afghans and foreigners, he said, “willing to pick up arms and integrate themselves with the Taliban.” He said the only way to win in places like Qalat is to “assimilate people who call themselves Taliban into a larger, more representative government.” “Approaching counterinsurgency by winning hearts and minds will ultimately be the answer,” Frist said. “Military versus insurgency one-to-one doesn't sound like it can be won. It sounds to me ... that the Taliban is everywhere.”»

Mis en ligne le 3 octobre 2006 à 16H49