Vice President Joe Biden has been taking heat this week for a controversial Newsweek interview, in which he said ‘the Taliban per se is not our enemy.’ But one group welcoming the Veep’s comments? The Taliban themselves. Reached by The Daily Beast in Afghanistan, several senior Taliban leaders say they saw the comment as a positive sign. ‘Biden’s statement shows that the U.S. is finally seeing us after 10 years of war with a cool head, not with emotion and cries for revenge that drove the US after 9/11,’ says Khazi Habibullah Fauzi, who served as the Taliban’s charge d’affaires in Saudi Arabia before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
