Moderate Taliban’ is like ‘moderate killer.’ Where do you find such a thing?
* Where’s the Moderate Taliban?  By Robert Spencer

Hillary backs reconciliation talks with Taliban “if they are willing to abandon violence”
Hillary: Yes, the “war on terror” really is over
So apparently, if they are willing to abandon violence and pursue their goal of implementing Islamic law by other means, that is just fine with her. Here is yet another demonstration of the danger of misdiagnosis of the global jihad threat: the problem is not the means the Taliban use, the problem is their goal. The Taliban are not bad because they are violent — after all, so are the forces that oppose them. However, as far as the President and the Secretary of State are concerned, that is the only problem with them. If they try to accomplish their goals at the ballot box rather than with guns and bombs, Obama and Clinton would welcome them as partners. The fact that the Taliban want to impose a law upon Afghanistan that would subjugate women and non-Muslims as inferiors, denied equality of rights with Muslim men, and extinguish freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, means nothing to them.
And why should it? Karzai’s Afghanistan is already a Sharia state, according to the Afghan Constitution.
“US backs reconciliation with non-violent Taliban,” from AFP, March 31 (thanks to JW):
* Our man in Kabul Hamid Karzai:  signs law ‘legalising rape in marriage’
President Hamid Karzai has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission.
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