Bill Frist: Tough on Tur-rists (WTF?)

The Repubs. The party of whatever sounds good at the time.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

Dkos:

Bill Frist has just put the final stake in the heart of the myth of Republican toughness on national security.

U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government

Huh? No, really. Huh?

QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.

The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means.

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Sadly, it bears repeating: Taliban = Al Qaeda. They are joined economically, ideologically, and operationally at the hip.

Republicans everywhere are having their heads explode.

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