Obama told Time‘s Joe Klein of that he is in favor of negotiating with the Taliban. General Petraeus agrees. This statement has prompted an elated response from blogger Mujahideen Ryder:”This is extremely good news, and makes me want to shout at all the Muslims in Texas, Virginia, Ohio, Florida and any other strong Republican states to get out there and vote for Barack Obama!”
However, scroll down and look at some of the comments and you can see this type of response is not unanimous. Some seem skeptical that Obama has their interests at heart. As in: “Obama is a Politician. At the end of the day he going to fold to the people who keep him in power.”