I think this is great. Money makes the world go 'round. I always say that boycotting works better than war, but i guess if neither works, you can just buy friends.

I think the US could have saved billions by simply giving away money instead of engaging a new war in 2001.

I can see this "strategy" backfiring big time. There is a big chance that the taliban members that get the money simply give it to their organizations and use it to buy more armaments, recruit faster, improve their organization overall, etc.

In my opinion the troops should come back as soon as possible from this useless war, and paying extremists is just going to add more fuel to the fire and cause the war to last even longer. giving your enemy money is one of the most retarded tactics ever.

Maybe that is the intent? fund the terrorists so the war will last longer for who knows what reasons?

This is a terrible idea.

If you want peace from the Taliban, or peace from Al-Queda, you kill them.

It's guaranteed to work without fail.

Take the gloves off, replace our generals with Colonels or Captains who have personally taken scalps, hunt them down, and kill them.

This isn't rocket science.

We don't need 40,000 more troops over there. We need to go to the villages, arm the men with rifles and radios, tell them when the Taliban or Al-Queda approach, to give a ring.

Quick reaction teams, scattered through the countryside with close air support can hunt the down in an effective, timely manner.

Tell the village leaders that no "inform," their blood be on their own heads.

No one can fear two sides equally.

Just make sure they fear you the most.

The rest is easy.

If ind this less than amusing..first of all, i dont know much about the taliban, but the news smears how comitted they are to the taliban...like they would die for ala and bin laden! They sound so cmitted, givng them money, they will only turn thier backs on us anyways...hell some oof them , supposedely, flew 2 airplanes into the trade centers..at least according to the CIA...so thiers your answer thier, how crazy n comitted they are.
Now, to give them allt hat money///is that what it takes here in america, for us civilains? start an out of ontrol terrorst group, to get get compensated to make any kind of real money? America cannot find the talkiban nor defeat it..this is like paying of the nazis to back off! in this case, the governemt is technically admitting defeat*

Yep, this was just reported about an hour ago.
About 10 minutes ago, the Taliban stormed a UN complex in Kabul and killed three UN workers vowing to do so against anyone who participates in the upcoming election process.
They also say this is the first attack.

Seems a little odd.

What a f'ing joke! We can't beat the taliban so we are going to pay them off? LMAO! Pathetic. And what happens when we run out of money or the dollar collapse? What then? US government and military are a bunch of morons. WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY THEM OFF! WAKE THE F UP!

I think this is a grand, EPIC sort of fail, wrought of fail and made to fail. As already pointed out, these people are very committed. I Know no amount of money would suffice to keep me complacent if someone were to invade my country, and kill my relatoves. It's a basic matter of principal. I do not see many people over there falling for this, and I agree with the above poster that the money would most likely just be directed back to the people in charge of the attacks. Not to mention the fact that the ones calling the shots on the attacks may very well be able to pay more than us...

*edit to fix grammar

[edit on 28-10-2009 by ganja]

We are gonna give them money to turn around and kill our men and women? W...T...F...???!!! This sounds so GD retarded. Next I guess we are gonna help sight in their guns for them. Whoever had this idea is a traitor.