Thread: Washington Says Taliban Is Not a Terrorist Organization

Obama administration has done a complete 180 from Bush

Washington Says Taliban Is Not a Terrorist Organization

By Diana West Wednesday, June 24, 2009



In a New York Daily News op-ed, Fred Gedrich reports something shocking that I am sure most Americans do not know: The State Department, from Bush to Obama, has never designated the Taliban a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

Given that the Taliban is foreign, terrorist and an organization, what gives?

Gedrich writes:

Neither the Bush nor Obama administrations has articulated the reasons for failing to designate the Taliban as an FTO, and congressional overseers haven’t publicly asked them why. The most reasonable assumption is that administration officials were hopeful that nonlisting would eventually facilitate rapprochement with “reconcilableâ€

Folks, how about asking your friendly US congressman to DO SOMETHING about this?





I'll get right on it......as soon as we have a friendly congressman to ask.