Senior Afghan Taliban officials visited Islamabad this week to talk with
the Pakistani government about the stalled peace process with the US,
and are seeking Pakistani officials’ help in getting the talks restarted.
The Pakistani government seems to be going along with the idea, with the
Foreign Ministry issuing a statement saying that they agree with the
Taliban that the process should be resumed as soon as possible.
President Trump, who already declared the peace process “dead,” seems to
be going with that stance, again citing the Taliban having killed an
American soldier, saying that the Taliban will “probably never” recover
from that loss of standing with the US.
At the same time, Trump didn’t appear to totally rule out a return to
peace talks with the Taliban. The practicality of that is unclear, as
the deal was essentially finalized already when Trump declared the talks
dead, and it’s not clear at what point they’d be restarted.
“President Trump, who already declared the peace process “dead,” seems to be going with that stance, again citing the Taliban having killed an American soldier, saying that the Taliban will “probably never” recover from that loss of standing with the US.”
Yes, because the US was no longer bombing or attempting to kill Taliban fighters. But why not use that as excuse since the public eats that crap up blindly? And while Trump was babbling that nonsense, honest Mike Pompeo was bragging about how many of them we had killed in those days leading up to the canceled meeting at Camp David.
Why even have a double standard if you are not willing to use it every day ?