An easy offer to refuse from Mullah Omar

Reuters:

Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Monday urged U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan to withdraw or face a similar defeat to occupying Soviet troops a generation ago.

In a rare message, posted on militant websites and monitored by the U.S.-based SITE intelligence group, Omar offered a bargain to the U.S.-led forces that drove the Taliban from power in 2001 but are now fighting a fierce insurgency by the Islamist militia.

"Reconsider your wrong decision of wrong occupation, and seek a safe exit to withdraw your forces," said the message, which the Taliban said came from Omar.

"If you leave our lands, we can arrange for you a reasonable opportunity for your departure," he said, adding that the Taliban posed no harm to anyone in the world.

If the occupation persisted, "you will be defeated in all parts of the world ... like the former Soviet Union," Omar said.

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Omar appears to be as delusional as always. He reminds me of a story told about the great Texas defense lawyer Percy Foreman. He had gotten a client off and was demanding payment from the guy when the client blurted out, "I already killed one old man." Foreman calmly responded, "But if you killed me you wouldn't have anyone to get you off the next time."

The point is that the Afghans could have never defeated the Soviets without our help and the Taliban do not have anything like that kind of assistance right now. The Taliban are under pressure in Afghanistan and Pakistan now. I think they are taking too seriously the talk in the western media about defeat in Afghanistan. The only place that is possible is in Washington and the Taliban don't have the lobby there to pull it off right now..

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