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Excuse me?

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.

"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."

[...]Sen. Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida accompanying Frist on his trip, said negotiating with the Taliban was not "out of the question" but that fighters who refused to join the political process would have to be defeated.

"A political solution is how it's all going to be solved," he said.

The Taliban directly aided bin Laden while he was planning 9/11. We fought a war to oust them from power. And now Senate Republicans want to allow them to join the Afghan government?

These are the people who claim Democrats are weak on terror? These are the people who claim we're Defeatocrats, and who try and compare us to people who thought you could appease Hitler? Are you kidding me?

I'm utterly speechless.