KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for peace talks and give the militants a position in government.

Strengthening a call for negotiations he has made with increasing frequency the last several weeks, President Hamid Karzai said he was willing to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and factional warlord leader.

“If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I’ll personally go there and get in touch with them,” Karzai said. “Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?”

Karzai said he has contacts with Taliban militants through tribal elders but that there are no direct and open government communication channels with the fighters.

“If a group of Taliban or a number of Taliban come to me and say, ‘President, we want a department in this or in that ministry or we want a position as deputy minister … and we don’t want to fight anymore… If there will be a demand and a request like that to me, I will accept it because I want conflicts and fighting to end in Afghanistan,” Karzai said.

“I wish there would be a demand as easy as this. I wish that they would want a position in the government. I will give them a position,” he said.

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What a strange world we live in, the French get a new president and suddenly grow a set of balls and the Afghans become the surrender monkeys…

Unless Karzai is being sarcastic and his statement is just a facetious line about what he would give the Taliban, that’s how I see it, Karzai has become a surrender monkey…

I am of the belief that you don’t negotiate from a position of weakness, you kick the living crap out of your enemy and force them to sue for peace, you don’t sit there and blubber like some teen forum drama queen about how you wish they’d come to you and want to be your friend and how you’d just give the world if they’d invite you into their club…

We had the Taliban all but destroyed in Afghanistan, in a war that most of the free world, and a HUGE majority of the American people saw as a right and justified action against the right enemy, in the right place at the right time, then Bush took the focus off of Afghanistan as we traipsed off to Iraq so he could satisfy his vendetta with Saddam, and as soon as he did, the Taliban began to rebuild and regroup, and you see where we are now??

We’re supporting a former ‘war lord’ that doesn’t have the strength to hold his own nation together and is willing to acquiesce to his enemies and negotiate from a position of weakness, wonderful state of affairs GW, simply wonderful…

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