Talking to terrorists?!?!?! Wait, what about the extreme Muslim extremists terrorists? Is Tillerson on his way out now? Soon to be fired? Quitting to spend time the wife and kids?
There’s always room for the Taliban. Because it worked out so well before.
He appears to be setting up the end game, which is to wash their hands of the whole country, declare a “victory” and walk away, leaving the Taliban to regain power and go right back to where things were in 2000.
Gotta free up troops for quixotic military adventurism elsewhere.
OK, let’s try it this way:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday there is a place for moderate elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan’s government as long as they renounce violence and terrorism and commit to stability.
Never-fucking-ending MSM coverage and dozens of hours of congressional testimony would follow.
I’ve never seen the back of Tillerson’s head, but from that photo it looks like he’s wearing a yarmulke. Not sure if that’s such a good thing in Afghanistan. Pretty sure, its not.
I’m basically of the opinion that this guy really doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing at his job, and much like his boss, he makes it up on the fly with no actual policy behind any of the things he says.
It’s just his weird hair - he has a black comb-over (comb-back? comb-down?) over what is probably a completely bald patch with a ring of fluffy white around it like a tonsure. Maybe after he applies Grecian Formula to his eyebrows he works out the brush on the back of his head.
Hahaha. I had to look up “tonsure” though. So, OK… So that’s what that weird thing is on top of the monk’s head. What’s the reason for that anyway?
Humiliation?
It also served as a mark of clerical status, which carried certain legal protections, during the Middle Ages. Interestingly, the style of the tensure was a minor point of contention in the struggles between Celtic and Roman Christianity in the early Middle Ages in Great Britain.
Apparently there’s a verse in Leviticus that is a rationale for the hairstyle, and there’s the “looks like a crown of thorns, and Peter wore it” explanation. With all the changes in dress and customs over the centuries it was remarkably consistent, up until my childhood when the Pope said, nah, never mind.