Speaking at Texas A&M University, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
said that US negotiations with the Taliban are trying to end the longest
war in US history, and that a goal is trying to “broker peace between the Taliban and the Afghan government.”
Negotiations have been ongoing for months, and have established a
growing understanding with the Taliban. The US and Taliban have the
framework of a deal, where the US withdraws from Afghanistan and the
Taliban keeps the ISIS and al-Qaeda out.
Pompeo’s talk of brokering peace between the Taliban and the Afghan
government is unusual, as the US has largely kept this on the
back-burner, and the Taliban has shown no interest in talking with the
Ghani government.
There have been some talks involving an Afghan committee this week. The
Ghani government has been reluctant to endorse the US negotiations so
far, complaining that the US isn’t directly including them in
decision-making.
“Trying to end the war”- you mean, the one WE started? Ending our war couldn’t be easier: we pack up our things and we leave. We make a deal with the Taliban for them to not attack us while we’re getting our stuff together, and we get on the boat and come home. It really is THAT simple. What happens in Afghanistan between the Taliban and the government is not our business any longer. If we want our hands on those resources nobody talks about, we can come back later- without waving guns around- and see if we can make some arrangements with whoever is in charge.
Here is an article that looks at key reasons why the war in Afghanistan has been a complete failure:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-colossal-failure-in-afghanistan.html
Eighteen years of war has accomplished almost nothing when it comes to meaningful and permanent changes in Afghanistan despite the spending of hundreds of billions of hard-earned taxpayers’ dollars.
Ah, those neocons, always playing the double game, just to keep these f-ing wars going decade after decade. Don’t you remember Project for the New American Century (PNAC)? Didn’t we see way back in 1997 that their grand plan was to turn the USA into a garrison state that would consume our nation’s life and treasure, eventually leaving us wasted and powerless?
Haven’t Pompeo’s boys back in CIA been Johnny on the spot, helping themselves to free money in the Afghan drug trade? Wasn’t al-CIAda always a project designed to play both sides against the middle in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria? When are we going to wake up to their deceit and chicanery?
the russians everywhere, castro, ortega, feels like the 80s