"A distinction is worth calling attention to, here. President Musharraf was negotiating with Waziri tribal elders. He did not reduce himself to formally negotiating with Taliban and Al Qaeda directly. NDP leader Jack Layton, and Liberal opposition critic Ujjal Dosanjh to the contrary, one does not negotiate with terrorist forces that, among many other routine atrocities, shoot little girls for the crime of going to school. [ Or hack off human heads. Or make children drink their own piss. Or shoot fleeing children in the back. Or abuse dead children for the propaganda value. ... They seem to have rather a problem with children don't they? It's become difficult to speculate how much lower they can sink, hasn't it? Perhaps hacking off dead children's heads that have been shot in the back while fleeing for the propaganda value that our witless EneMedia labors to provide them??? -ed. ] "