US negotiations with the Taliban have been making substantial progress
in recent months, and there seem to be high hopes that a meeting next
week in Doha would be a breakthrough moment. Taliban spokesman Suhail
Shaheen suggested the deal is already effectively made.
Shaheen announced on Twitter Tuesday that the US had pledged to accept a full military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and furthermore to never again interfere in Afghan affairs.
That is certainly the direction the talks have been going, but US
military spokesman Col. Dave Butler denied that any such deal was made,
saying that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.”
But the basic framework has always been a US withdrawal and the Taliban
keeping ISIS and al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan. Further details may need
to be worked out to finalize everything, and it’s not clear where they
are in that process.
Still, for the US to completely deny that a deal is agreed to seems
dishonest, even if technically it isn’t finalized. The US likely just
isn’t ready to make this part of the deal official, because of the
backlash from Congressional hawks who want to keep troops in Afghanistan
forever.
Trump will finally get the US out of Afghanistan
and I’d bet BEFORE the 2020 election, watch.
He better make sure he doesn’t leave enough time for the inevitable rout by the Taliban over the puppet government in Kabul. So maybe two weeks before the election.
Ever the optimist, thanks wars.
OUT is all that counts.
Just being a realist.
Agreed.
Jesus Christ, it’s going on two decades already. There will be kids able to vote in 2020 who know nothing but a US-occupied Afghanistan their whole lives. How in the hell are neocons convincing anyone that we need to stay anymore? Sunk cost?
it won’t help trump . too many are seeing the con man for what he is , a loud mouthed bully.
Projection.
uh oh, a trumpbot who has eyes wide shut. pathetic.
Because
Madcow, Mueller, Stormy, creepy pron lawyer, Hillary and 0bama
told you what you have to “think”.
i realize fully how difficult it is for trumpbots to face reality. but even though you suffer from dead brain cells and the only cells firing tell you to ASSume that everyone who sees the con man ,liar ,bully trump for what he really is must be a liberal or on the blue team. i assure you that plenty of americans do not like your narcissistic isn’treal loving bully. we are fully capable of independent thought. now, its time you give your feeble brain a rest. otherwise it might explode and your trump god can’t tweet it back to life. lol
Sure:
economy–UP;
UE–DOWN;
ISIS caliphate–GONE;
oil and nat gas production–record HIGHS;
SC–at least balanced or tilted slightly RIGHT;
Mueller “investigation”– a BUST;
LOLOLO!!!
Did you happen to see Trump’s reelection rally–THOUSANDS;
while the 22 Demo-dwarf “candidates” only draw flies.
Your an embarrassment to clan Irish.
Adios
LMAO wow how delusional you trumpbots are. the msm tells you lies, t you believe it. lol
I never listen to the MSM, they control what you “think”.
it seems that you do. but seem unaware of it. lol
The MSM brain washes bots like you,
they never report the truth about him.
You are especially delusional not to know that.
lol proof, looky here that stoked on stupid watches the msm.
Refute with evidence one of the claims I made re Trump
When you are faced with facts, you run, hide, then ignore.
Remember:
Russia, Russia, Russia;
Stormy, Stormy, Stormy;
or (LOLROTFH) Mueller, Mueller, Mueller!
You people are SO easy to chump!
why should i waste my time on a trumpbot? truth rolls off you fools as water off a duck feather.
You should to prove you can, but you can’t,
and that is hilarious!
whats hilarious is a trumpbot attempting to lure a reasonable human into trying to proof anything the trumptard will just deny or avoid. this is why trumptard trolls are to be ignored. out of touch with reality ,trump won’t save you, thats a guarantee.
You’ve got nothing irish boi.
au contraire ,missy stoked not. why waste time on a frumpbot.
Wait a minute, this is a Trump administration deal, you know heads I win tails you loose, subject to any number of flip flops in the process.
Heads – Trump Wins. Tails – Hillary lost.
That was a real accomplishment. Now what has he actually done AS president? Oh, sent out a bunch of tweets calling his opponents losers and declaring himself to be the greatest thing since sliced bread? Great.
Lower unemployment, higher wages, tax cuts, cuts in regulation, negating one-sided trade deals. Now exactly what did Obama do?
Unemployment went down and wages went up for eight years under Obama.
There haven’t been any tax cuts under Trump. Re-arranging which revenue sources the money comes from doesn’t change the tax burden unless you actually take (and spend) less money.
Regulation as measured by rule count in the Federal Register is just about down to the level it was at on the day Trump was inaugurated, after rising for the first year of his administration. Not necessarily his fault, as it took time to implement his executive order. Other types of regulation not published in the Federal Register have increased, including his war on the American economy via fake “emergency” declarations (“negating one-sided trade deals”).
It did for me – same income – $1000 less in taxes.
$1000 less in INCOME taxes.
Are you aware that there are federal taxes other than income taxes?
For example, Trump’s tariffs, which surpassed the ObamaCare taxes some time ago and are about to wipe out the net income tax cuts? And borrowing, which is just taxation with deferred payment (with interest)? Among others.
Of course, but the passage of the law was reduction in income taxes, and the vast majority of the voters who oppose that pay no taxes in the first place (along with huge corps). Naturally, the recipients of the Earned Income Tax credit don’t want to turn off that spigot.
If they eat, they pay taxes. If they drive, they pay taxes. If they own or rent a domicile, they pay taxes.
Yes, some Americans got income tax cuts, the total amount of which has been more than offset by deferred taxation (borrowing), tariffs, etc.
….therefore raising the income tax is good for everyone?
No. Raising taxes is never good.
Neither is pretending to cut taxes while not actually doing so.
The only way for taxes to actually go down is for spending to go down.
and they receive special taxpayer income tax money via the EITC, and they just love those taxes.
Who’s “they?”
Yes, some people receive welfare disguised as a “tax credit” in excess of what they initially paid in for income taxes.
Other people don’t.
All Federal Regulation is published in the Federal Register.
Nope. The various federal departments can publish “administrative decisions” and “administrative guidance” as internal supplements without submitting them to the Federal Register. Those documents bear the same relation to the register as court rulings do to statute codes. That is, while the former have force of law, they do not appear in the latter.
That’s not “regulation”; those are “interpretations” of the gobbedlygook regulations that appears in the Federal Register as Regulation. That’s what keeps the D.C. lawyers busy. New regulations have gone way down.
Also, your check as an heir to the crown prince of Nigeria really is in the mail and will arrive any day now.
No – that’s something that all federal employees who get the interpretations almost weekly are aware of, in the United States of America. I wouldn’t know how Nigeria operates.
Unemployment went down and wages went up much more in the limited time of Trump than the eight years of Obama. And, seeing we’re counting all the things that these Administrations have done, what did Obama do, other than win the political Nobel Peace Prize and then support the overthrow and attempted overthrow of the governments of Libya and Syria. Then there was the wonderul “Ef the EU” and “Yats is our man”, when the Obama Admin helped overthrow the last democratic election in Ukraine when all the eligible voters were allowed to vote.
I agree — Obama was about as bad as Trump has been so far on foreign policy.
As for economic trends, I tend not to assign a great deal of blame or credit to presidents for the economy, but Trump has been substantially more interventionist than Obama on that front. I guess we’ll see what the long-term results are. Almost certainly big craters where much of US soybean farming and tech production used to be. The big question is whether the country goes into obvious recession before or after November 2020.
I got a tax cut–not sure what you were doing. I’d rather have that money going to do something constructive like repairing our crumbling infrastructure, but whatev.
The IRS will take it – mail it to them.
You probably didn’t get a tax cut. Granted, some people did get some cuts in some particular taxes. But government spending went up, not down. Therefore taxes went up, not down.
rather trump wins,usa loses.
Flip-flopping would indicate that there was a coherent plan in the first place to deviate from. When there’s no one at the controls, it’s hard to steer the ship of state.
If the U.S. won’t get out, there needs to be an Afghan Tet Offensive.
Jesus you think we could have negotiated that deal 18 years, 1 trillion dollars, and 3000 dead ago.
does the deal include allowing the usa to still monitor the poppy fields?