Obama's "peace partner," Taliban, shoot 14-year-old peace campaigner

Lara Logan: "Major lie being propagated” by Obama on #savage jihadists in Afghanistan, Libya etc

The devout Islamic group, the Taliban, fired on America's top military General Martin Dempsey's plane at Bagram Airbase. And that was just days after US troops were killed by an Afghan police attack, and not a week after three US soldiers were murdered during the Ramadan meal (the meal that one of the victims, Captain Menoukian, insisted that his Marines observe). Despite the respect, subservience and dhimmitude displayed by the US military, they were murdered anyway. Full-on jihad.

For weeks now, our troops have been slaughtered in green-on-blue attacks in Obama's continuing #epicfailed Afghanistan policy. These acts of jihad were "virtually unheard of just a few years ago," when America was the "strong horse." But Obama's anti-freedom, pro-jihad foreign policy has given the global jihad a new lease on death and all but erased whatever gains were made under Bush. Obama has resurrected the Taliban. And he continues to stalk them for "peace" as they ratchet up their jihadi war on the US and NATO. Obama, stop begging and start fighting.

How many have to be slaughtered before Obama lets go of his lethal fantasy? Obama is still stalking the Taliban as a peace partner while they spit in his face, behead Afghan children, poison girls' schools and slaughter our boys and girls, and behead Afghans who dare to attend a party where dancing takes place.

Such an anti-freedom, pro-jihad foreign policy is madness. These open attacks on coalition forces and less devout Muslims are daily now. The supreme leader of the Taliban boasted last Thursday night that the insurgents are infiltrating the quickly expanding Afghan forces.

Just last month, Barack Hussein Obama used the NATO summit to press Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to engage with greater urgency with the Taliban about a political settlement in Afghanistan. "Political settlement" is Obama-speak for surrender to jihad. The media's silence on Obama's unprecedented failure in Afghanistan (the good war, remember?) borders on sedition.

This summer, it was announced that Mullah Omar can run for president in Afghanistan. That would be like allowing Hitler (had he been alive) to run for fuhrer after the war. Mullah Omar has been wanted by the U.S. State Department since October 2001. There's a ten million dollar reward on his head. He sheltered Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda killers in the years prior to the September 11 attacks. He had a hand in the 911 attacks, and is directing the Taliban's ongoing war against the U.S.-led NATO forces and the government of Afghanistan. Obama has declared that Afghanistan is a "major non-NATO ally." The non-NATO ally declaration allows for streamlined defense cooperation, more money, expedited purchasing ability of American equipment, and easier export control regulations. And he has committed to more jizya for the Taliban.

"Taliban shoot 14-year-old Pakistani peace campaigner" Reuters (hat tip Randolph)

Taliban gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against the militants, authorities said.

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded, police said.

Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when even the government seemed to be appeasing the hardline Islamists.

The government agreed to a ceasefire with the Taliban in Swat in early 2009, effectively recognizing insurgent control of the valley whose lakes and mountains had long been a tourist attraction.

The Taliban set up courts, executed residents and closed girls' schools, including the one that Yousufzai attended. A documentary team filmed her weeping as she explained her ambition to be a doctor.

"My friend came to me and said, 'for God's sake, answer me honestly, is our school going to be attacked by the Taliban?'," Yousufzai, then 11, wrote in a blog published by the BBC.

"During the morning assembly we were told not to wear colorful clothes as the Taliban would object."

The army launched an offensive and retook control of Swat later that year, and Yousufzai later received the country's highest civilian award. She was also nominated for international awards for child activists.

Since then, she has received numerous threats. On Tuesday, gunmen arrived at her school and asked for her by name, witnesses told police. Yousufzai was shot when she came out of class and went to a bus.

Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said his group was behind the shooting.

"She was pro-West, she was speaking against Taliban and she was calling President Obama her ideal leader," Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"She was young but she was promoting Western culture in Pashtun areas," he said, referring the main ethnic group in northwest Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. Most members of the Taliban come from conservative Pashtun tribes.

Doctors were struggling to save Yousufzai, said Lal Noor, a doctor at the Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in the Swat valley's main town of Mingora.