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DEL.ICIO.USLearning from the Taliban
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s worth noting that President Obama isn’t the only one who screwed up this week.
The Hotline, a subscription news service, this morning posted an interview with U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, who said House Republicans might have to adopt Taliban-style insurgency tactics to cope with Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes.
And these Taliban — I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”
He continues:
“If they do not give us those options or opportunities then we will then become insurgency of a nature to where we do those things that are necessary to making sure the American public knows what we think the correct answer is.”
Comments
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
February 5, 2009 6:16 PM | Link to this
Takes one to know one.
The Party is Mother. The Party is Father. The Party is All.
(Republican Party that is.)
By GA VALUES
February 6, 2009 11:16 AM | Link to this
700 thousand jobs lost last month … unemployment up to 7.6 percent … and they are taking their cues from the Taliban. Nice.