Smart move. The Obama administration is credulous enough to believe that Hezbollah will go away if Israel only gives up another eight square miles of territory. So why not take the chance and try to get the US to sell out another ally?

Pakistan's military has offered to play a broker between the US and the Taliban, but in return it wants concessions from Washington over Islamabad's concerns with India, according to CNN. Pakistan military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas said in an interview with the news channel that Pakistan's military was not only in contact with Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar but that it can bring him and other commanders to the negotiating table with the US.

The acknowledgment of on-going communication with Taliban forces using sanctuary in Pakistan to launch military strikes against US troops in neighbouring Afghanistan is part of a new diplomatic overture to help the Obama administration find an end to the long-running conflict, CNN said. But Abbas told the channel that in return for any role as a broker between the US and the Taliban, Pakistan wants concessions from Washington over Islamabad's concerns with longtime rival India.

And scoreboard says...

CNN said senior US officials had told it that the Obama administration is willing both to talk to top Taliban leaders and to raise some of Pakistan's concerns with India.

Of course they'll willing. This administration has yet to meet an Arab or Muslim claim against a pro-Western democracy that it wasn't willing to entertain. India's been reeling from a sustained terror offensive since the very first day of 2009, and now the administration is going to approach them with "Pakistan's concerns." No way that gets perceived as breathtakingly insensitive and gutless.

The Indians, to their credit, have seen this coming for a long time. They already told Obama to go pound sand back in February. The administration eventually responded by leaking that they want India to give up their nukes at the same time Pakistan was super-sizing their own arsenal. That went about how you'd expect.

I wonder how all of this will affect the Obama monkey god idol thing.

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