The Taliban has issued a statement this weekend cautioning that the US-Taliban peace deal in Afghanistan is close to a “breaking point” after weeks of violations by the US, and in particular the Afghan government failing to come through on prisoner releases.
The deal promised 5,000 prisoners would be released by the Afghan government, and so far none have. The Taliban also said US drone strikes were in violation of the peace deal, though US officials argued this was not the case, and that only the Taliban were obliged to reduce violence under the pact.
The Taliban argued that they had reduced violence substantially, and the only strikes they have conducted were rural attacks on Afghan government targets, adding that no cities were attacks, and no foreign troops came under fire at all.
US officials, however, say the Taliban must reduce violence even more, and that they will carry out attacks against the Taliban if they do not. There is no sign the US will do anything to pressure the Ghani government on prisoner releases.
Translation: Ha ha, broke the Taliban spring campaign, nyah, nyah, nyah. (Whew…)
The US argues that “only the Taliban are required to reduce violence under the pact”
My God the gall of this US Administration knows no bounds. The US can kill and naime thousands of Afghans but the Afghans cannot respond. Who the hell do these people think they are? If ever there was a God He is needed now to strike down these heinous monsters and scatter them to all corners of this planet.
Well, that’s just the way the exceptional nation thinks.
I regard the US as being evil, which is why they have enlisted the help of other evil groups over many decades.
One such group was the Mujahedin, which then became the Taliban. The Taliban are incredibly evil, they do not represent ordinary Afghanis, they are cruel and repressive.
No, the Taliban are not evil. Don’t believe everything you read about them in the western press or their quislings elsewhere. There is no better example in the world today than the US as evil par excellence. Not only is itself screwed up, but it has exported its disease to the rest of the world.
Oppressive is evil.
You don’t know what the ef you’re talking about. All Imperial Kool-Aid all the time. You are not qualified to engage in any factual discussion of the matter.
What does he say that isn’t true? The Afghan people might prefer them to us but it’s not like the Taliban are proponents of any type of individual freedom. We should leave but the Taliban are a bunch of fanatics that shouldn’t be admired by anyone.
Taliban should have known the US is incapable of sticking to any agreements, they only needed to look to the Iran nuclear deal.
My advice to the Taliban: No need to make any deals with the UN. Focus on the struggle to swing traitors Ghani and Adbullah from lampposts.
The Taliban also said US drone strikes were in violation of the peace deal, though US officials argued this was not the case, and that only the Taliban were obliged to reduce violence under the pact.
How can you expect a deal to hold, when one party ( the US ) thinks it has the right to violate the deal and only the other party has to uphold the deal.
Looks like a Pompeo deal.
The Taliban should be wary of dealing with the devil.
Another deception aimed at restless American public. Just more platitudes and lies. There is one constituency that cannot be lied to — military and veterans. Let us see how long this deception work. Till election?
“There is one constituency that cannot be lied to — military and veterans.”
Well, you just cost me a keyboard. Snorted Diet Dr. Pepper all over mine.
If there’s a more gullible constituency than military and veterans, it would probably be dementia-afflicted senior citizens in homes for the already developmentally disabled.
Sorry about your keyboard. Do you really believe that the used and abused military, being lied to too many times — will forever stay that way?
I can see out laptop warriors bravely urging more wars to defend “our freedoms” by arts and crafts peace mission to Vietnam, but not the rank and file forever.
The US ran into the problem of military personnel getting uppity and starting to think for themselves during Vietnam. The solutions to that problem have worked fairly well in the 50 years since:
1) An all-volunteer (aka mercenary) military, full of people who have self-selected for willingness to take orders and believe what they’re told and who enjoy reasonably good pay and benefits;
2) Choosing both wars, and methods of fighting them, that don’t produce large, sustained US casualty numbers.
Thats funny, we seem to be confused about who wants the peace deal more.
The real problem isn’t whether the Taliban are good or evil. The problem is that the USA should have never invaded Afghanistan.