You know Confucius takes issues of war, peace, strategy, diplomacy, and so forth seriously. Maybe a little too seriously. Defeats and bad press for the U.S. depress him mightily. Still. He can’t stop laughing at this. We’ve apparently be negotiating with a Taliban commander—who’s not actually a Taliban commander, but an con man!

“It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”

Wow. We probably gotta find that guy and kill him and/or his sponsors to keep up any kind of credibility over there, but… 我靠, that’s pretty awesome. Well played, bad guys.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.