Desperation. That’s the only way to describe this new talking point from the White House. According to them, the Taliban that’s been killing American soldiers isn’t really the enemy. In fact, the Obama Administration believes that the terrorist group has a positive role in Afghanistan’s future.

Why this new talking point? Obama doesn’t want to commit more troops to the war, as it would end up pissing off his far-left, anti-war base. So he’s trying to eliminate the enemy by pretending the enemy is no longer an enemy. We’re going to fight a war by pretending that the people we’re fighting are really good people we no longer need to fight. Smart power.

Though aides stress that the president’s final decision on any changes is still at least two weeks away, the emerging thinking suggests that he would be very unlikely to favor a large military increase of the kind being advocated by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal…

Obama’s developing strategy on the Taliban will “not tolerate their return to power,” the senior official said in an interview with The Associated Press. But the U.S. would fight only to keep the Taliban from retaking control of Afghanistan’s central government — something it is now far from being capable of — and from giving renewed sanctuary in Afghanistan to al-Qaida, the official said…

Bowing to the reality that the Taliban is too ingrained in Afghanistan’s culture to be entirely defeated, the administration is prepared, as it has been for some time, to accept some Taliban role in parts of Afghanistan, the official said. That could mean paving the way for Taliban members willing to renounce violence to participate in a central government — though there has been little receptiveness to this among the Taliban. It might even mean ceding some regions of the country to the Taliban…

Obama kept returning to one question for his advisers: Who is our adversary, the official said.

We’re getting ready to surrender. Rather than actually fight the war, Obama’s going to give the country over to the Taliban and pretend that it’s all about Al Qaeda. You know, completely ignoring the fact that the Taliban gave OBL safe haven and has been killing our countrymen for eight years now.

Allahpundit writes:

In other words, rather than eat crap by forthrightly admitting he’s prepared to abandon huge swaths of the country to Islamist fascists rather than invest another 40,000 troops, he’s going to create an artificial distinction between the Taliban and Al Qaeda to let him save face by claiming he’s focused on “the real enemy.” Much like how he was focused during the campaign on “the good war” in Afghanistan rather than “the bad war” in Iraq. I wonder how long it’ll be before he decides that not everyone who’s in Al Qaeda is an enemy either — or, better yet, that AQ’s been “substantially defeated” or something, which has been the unstated thrust of all those WH-leaked pieces in the press lately about how weak Bin Laden’s gang has become. Why, I’ll bet in a year or so we’ll be told that they’re so weak that we can start pulling out of Afghanistan altogether. Things sure have improved over there since Bush was president, huh?

Indeed. We’ve gone from fighting a war and needing a new strategy for victory, to “fighting” a war by declaring the enemy our friends, surrendering territory to it, and essentially surrendering the conflict. Welcome to the era of Hope’N'Change.

Apparently this is what Obama meant by victory in Afghanistan. Pretending we’ve won the war by relabeling our enemy, the people still trying to kill us, as our friends and then insisting the country is now under the control of our friends. We’re rebranding the enemy and trying to turn surrender into a victory. Pathetic.

Thanks, 52%.