Straight from the Taliban

Afghan Taliban spokesman: We will win the war

CNN's Nic Robertson sat down with a Taliban spokesman to get their side of the story. This is more of what we need from the mainstream media. We need to understand the people whose name is thrown around with Al Qaeda as the bane of Western civilization. If we ever plan on bringing the Afghan war to an end, we need to understand what the those we are fighting are looking to get out of it. These are the same folks that won a war of attrition with the Soviets (with us helping them, granted) and their army of 110,000 strong. We don't need to take that path to defeat.

In the end, as much as we love democracy here in America, maybe it's just not the same in Afghanistan. I'm not saying the people there want or don't want democracy, but we need to step back and realize that it's their choice to make, not ours. Plus, before democracy can really ever take hold in a country such as Afghanistan, the people there need to have their basic needs taken care of. This would involve improvement in areas such as economic opportunity and infrastructure. Without the groundwork being done, democracy has no chance.