NPR Host: “The Taliban Has Never Been An Enemy Of The United States”…
Taxpayer-funded weapons-grade liberal stupidity.
(Daily Caller) — So what if the pre-2002 Taliban government of Afghanistan harbored terrorists that were responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. And never mind if more recently the Taliban reacted to the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with a pair of suicide bombers — they’re not really our enemies.
That’s the takeaway from public radio host John Hockenberry, whose show “The Takeaway” appears on NPR stations all over the country.
In an interview with Christine Fair, assistant professor at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Hockenberry challenged the notion of the Taliban being an enemy of the United States and declared that the idea it could again make Afghanistan a haven for terrorists “an absurdity.”
“I guess, Christine Fair, I’m wondering why this is even a debate,” Hockenberry said. “The Taliban has never been an enemy of the United States. They don’t love us in Afghanistan, but they’re not sending planes over to New York or to the Pentagon and it seems to me much more broadly that the debate needs to happen is what is the sort of multi-state strategy for dealing with rogue nations of all kinds. Yemen is about to fall apart. You’ve got Somalia problems. The idea that terrorists just go to Afghanistan and launch weapons at the United States it seems in 2011 is an absurdity.”
Posted by ZIP on Monday, June 20, 2011, at 9:22 pm | 
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Way to much Dope Smoking at NPR…
You can’t fix stupid–but you don’t have to enshrine it, like the Left does.
You cant smoke that much dope Rocketman.
And didnt the rupgnants de………never mind
Seems some military Big-Wigs are Smoking the Peace Pipe with the Taliban now as well…this is, will and has cost us some Mighty Big Wampum.
NPR is an enemy of the United States
another reason to defund NPR
John Cockenberry and Christine Cair be on crack.
@ GRIZZ…… Oh I don’t know, I have debated some pretty delusional dope smokers in my time…. Laughing…….
Sorry, posted to the wrong story (below).
We have never been at war with Eurasia…
“They don’t love us in Afghanistan, but they’re not sending planes over to New York or to the Pentagon….”
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Normally I’d make some comment about sending them back to the stone-age, but in the case of the Taliban…….Allah beat me to it!
Superstitious, paranoid and dangerous Mud People!
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Smoke some more CRACK, Hockenberry…….
DEFUND NPR!
Well, dipshit, it’s an “absurdity in 2011″ because we put our boot on their throats, you stupid fuck.
HOW this organization continues to get government funding amazes me.
Remember when we were told how NPR would be defunded by the new Congress, as well as a host of other things they were going to do? I said that if they couldn’t defund NPR, we could effectively write them off. Have we even heard from the Congress in months? The only one I’ve heard from is Boehner and he’s playing golf with Obama. What a total failure this Congress has been.
You know, I just wonder if they listen to their own broadcasts?
I listened to NPR a lot prior to 2008, I loved the show “Fresh Air” ?. But the thing these people don’t understand is that they are no longer a media source in isolation, they could get away saying things like this before all the internet media sources, which can link to evidence, fact etc.
I just wonder if NPR even realises this? Based on this, I would say no.
Hockenberry doesn’t get out much.
You have to really understand that the left has no memory.
This is why I dated a few in college.
That department at Georgetown is a fraud. Georgetown should dissolve it or face dis-accreditation procedures. Get these unacademic muslimi freaks out of the US university system. They stink up the whole country.
Agreed JohnDiFool-short and sweet and to the point.
You have to understand that when NPR says “The Taliban Has Never Been An Enemy Of The United States” they don’t mean the US military or US business, or the lowly US working class citizen; they mean the rich liberal ruling class and the communists, layabouts, and undocumented immigrants who support them.
“You can avoid evil but you can not avoid the consequences of evil” Ayn Rand
Everyone on the left has a genetic defect to surrender and thus unable to understand the the gathering threat. I have no sympathy for these malcontents. You blithering idiots—did you not read what they did to those innocent American doctors that were murdered for helping their brethren with their eyesight
..YOU MUST GO AND LIVE IN AFGHANISTAN IF YOU LOVE THEM
NPR is a symbolic flag of surrender—pathetic group of loosers
I have some veteran friends that would like to spend 5 minutes with these two and “explain” how the Taliban loves us.
How is it these amateur, out-of-touch, morons can sit back, in the comfort of their 20 watt NPR station and disgourge such crap? I hope I live long enough to see the “elites” of this nation (like frick and frack here) get their just reward.
“The Taliban has never been an enemy of the United States.”
Wrong. They are religiously-obligated to harbor enmity and hostility towards and to wage war against all kuffar, including US — it’s called Al-Wala Wa’l-Bara’a, meaning Loyalty and Enmity, Jihad At-Talab (Offensive Jihad) being considered the greatest manifestation of such anti-kaffir hatred…
“To say the cause is such as such we need evidence as the sabab is derived from the shariah. From what the texts indicate, the sabab for Al-Jihad is disbelief. I have given evidence above: , “..fight those who encircle you (close to you geographically) of the disbelievers…‖, ―Fight the allies of Satan‖, ―Fight the leaders of disbelief‖, ―Fight the polytheists altogether‖ etc. But we do not fight the Ahl-alDhimmi only the kafir who live outside of our borders. Thus we say the sabab of Al-Jihad is their disbelief and their rejection of the dawa’. The rejection of the dawa’ is that they do not live under the rule of Islam. When we engage in Al-Jihad we invite them to embrace Islam, if they refuse, we ask them to pay the Jizya and if they refuse we fight/conquer them.
The sabab for stopping Al-Jihad is the payment of Jizya and them living under the rule of Islam. This is what the evidences have indicated “…until they pay the jizyah from their hands while they are humiliated‖, “…ask them the jizyah; if they respond to you, accept from them and do not fight them…”[Muslim].”
http://forum.hizbuttahrir.org/archive/index.php/t-61.html
“Superstitious, paranoid and dangerous Mud People!”
Pashtuns are actually White Caucasoids.
The Taliban is like a cobra. These clowns will take them to their bosom, then one day wonder, “Why I am so weak? Why am I sweating? Why is the room spinning around?” as they collapse with that cobra still clutched to their breast.
When will they ever learn?
Hockenberry is a putz. Which immediately earned him a place at NPR.
Violent agreement huh? Ya, you just have to wonder what they’ve been snorting? This is sad-
I’m speechless. These zombies really do have mental and psychological problems and desperately need to receive a Darwin award.
Have they been defunded yet, and if not….why?
One excuse was that they reach areas of the country with their agenda where there are no other stations. How is that a plus?
Why not send this employee over to interview some Taliban with the understanding that no US military will be sent to collect his tortured, burnt, headless remains from a bridge.
США видит своб беспомощность
Это поражение перед Талибами
И вообще – нужно скоро вторгнуться на территорию США – ДОСТАВИТЬ ДЕМОКРАТИЮ для американцев и устроить там резню ..
И почему американцы надеялись выиграть войну в Талибов ?
Для этих целей нужны массовые наземные операции.
А американцы только имеют технологии и технику.
Проводить массовые операции и бои они не умеют , не хотят и
вообще ,,,, по своей природе американцы,,,, большая часть американских мужчин являются трусливыми.
Американцы бояться потерять свою жизнь ….
Американцы боятся суд..
Американцы бояться закон и неоплаченные счета…
Это минталитет … Они боятся всего , и способны нападать только на небольшие страны …
По факту данной статьи
США пятится назад
Америка понимает ,что они терпят поражение и нужно уйти из Афганистана с меньшим позором .