Taliban chief negotiator Sher Abbas Stanekzai announced on Friday that the Taliban has agreed to a complete ceasefire that was contingent on the US accepting the existing Afghan peace deal.
President Trump scrapped the Afghan deal last weekend, citing his anger at the Taliban for continuing to fight. Other US officials had cited both the lack of a ceasefire and the Taliban not making a deal with the Afghan government.
On that front, Stanekzai also noted that the Taliban has already scheduled talks with the Afghan government on September 23. It’s not clear what’s going to happen with these talks if the US peace process is “dead.”
All indications are that the Taliban were both willing for the peace deal last week, and are still willing now. The big question, then, is if President Trump will come around to the idea, or will just keep dismissing peace and choosing to continue America’s longest war.
Poor cutthroat bastards, how naive are they to think U.S was going to walk out of Afghanistan.
You think the Taliban are naive? I’ve been in Helmand (Kandahar) when it was peaceful. These Pashtuns never give up, they are born fighting, 5 yr children carry knives, every man a rifle and pistol. They are already “home”. The Foreigners will leave. “It is written.”
I was in Vietnam when the US was winning, until they lost. Pashtuns are tougher. They have divine faith, while Americans are mercenaries, cowards after money. They always lose.
“They always lose”….depends on what you mean by lose. The US “lost” the Vietnam war, yet Vietnam was destroyed, and set back 100 years in development. They are still dying and being maimed and disfigured by US poisons. Naive, is thinking many of our “nice” neighbors in the US, aren’t ok with that. We are doing the same to the ME. To psychotic humans, that is winning, and by every observation, it is the psychotic which lead, and support the effort.
Precisely, at age five they are taught the way of the warrior, every thing else is unsophisticated.
Even if U.S removes military presence, they’ll have armed contractors and ZiA droning things once in a while.