Incredible. That whirlwind of brilliant, consistent thought, Sen. Bill Frist, now believes that the Taliban should be brought into the formal government of Afghanistan, thus effectively legitimizing them.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.

So because they are too numerous and too popular, Frist is giving up, appeasing -- where is Bush/Cheney and the GOP machine to scold him and label him traitor?

Invade and bomb non-9/11-associated Iraq, but empower the 9/11-responsible Taliban? Just too much.