“U.S. peace envoy’s years of peace negotiations go up in flames in Afghanistan; what went wrong?” NBC News story 8/13/21, by Dan De Luce, detailed how President Trump & his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo fully endorsed the deal brokered by envoy Zalmay Khalilzad between the U.S. & the Taliban leaders, mainly without any Afghan govt officials present. Afghan president, “Ashraf Ghani’s, national security advisor, accused Khalilzad in 2019 of selling out the Afghan govt in the talks, lending the Taliban a veneer of credibility”. (Remember in 2019, when Trump & Erdogan released thousands of ISIS jihadists to go reconstitute elsewhere, and Trump abandoned the Kurds to Erdogan?) Khalilzad conferred with diplomats from China, Russia & other world powers in Doha, Qater in 2020, as the Taliban unleashed a military onslaught to retake Afghanistan by force. Taliban terrorists were awarded a seat at the table, not negotiating in good faith, they pushed their demands for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. The peace talks were going nowhere, and Trump, who broadcast his desires for a U.S. unilateral withdrawal undermined the envoy’s peace-efforts, by extracting troops ahead of schedule, conceding to the insurgent’s demands, and leaving only 2500 troops until the determined final troop withdrawal, May 2021 deadline. Experts say that the U.S. lost any leverage with the Taliban once it made clear its eagerness to remove American troops. This is the situation that President Biden inherited this year.
Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani fled the presidential palace 8/15/21, “to avoid bloodshed” in Afghanistan aka Islamic Emirate, only days after vowing he’d be among the leaders ready to defend their country; it is rumored that Ghani has flown to Uzbekistan. So after we’ve waged war in Afghanistan for 20 years, spent blood & treasure, over $2T, the Taliban warlords have surged across that country, opening prison doors, swelling their ranks, bent on exacting their strict Islamic Sharia law, murdering artists, musicians, translators, and all those who were against them, while gathering lists of females to be given to their Taliban brethren. Allah has rewarded them with victory over the infidels. Some say, “if we’d just have stayed a little longer & killed more people, we could have made a bigger difference”. Afghan national military & police dead 66,000; Taliban & opposition fighters dead 51,191; Afghan civilians dead 47,245; US contractors dead 3846; American military dead 2448; Allied service members dead 1144; Aid workers dead 444, Journalists dead 72. I thank President Biden for assuming the responsibility of ending our involvement, not sending my grandkids to fight the Taliban.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Aug 28 2021
What went wrong?
“U.S. peace envoy’s years of peace negotiations go up in flames in Afghanistan; what went wrong?” NBC News story 8/13/21, by Dan De Luce, detailed how President Trump & his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo fully endorsed the deal brokered by envoy Zalmay Khalilzad between the U.S. & the Taliban leaders, mainly without any Afghan govt officials present. Afghan president, “Ashraf Ghani’s, national security advisor, accused Khalilzad in 2019 of selling out the Afghan govt in the talks, lending the Taliban a veneer of credibility”. (Remember in 2019, when Trump & Erdogan released thousands of ISIS jihadists to go reconstitute elsewhere, and Trump abandoned the Kurds to Erdogan?) Khalilzad conferred with diplomats from China, Russia & other world powers in Doha, Qater in 2020, as the Taliban unleashed a military onslaught to retake Afghanistan by force. Taliban terrorists were awarded a seat at the table, not negotiating in good faith, they pushed their demands for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. The peace talks were going nowhere, and Trump, who broadcast his desires for a U.S. unilateral withdrawal undermined the envoy’s peace-efforts, by extracting troops ahead of schedule, conceding to the insurgent’s demands, and leaving only 2500 troops until the determined final troop withdrawal, May 2021 deadline. Experts say that the U.S. lost any leverage with the Taliban once it made clear its eagerness to remove American troops. This is the situation that President Biden inherited this year.
Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani fled the presidential palace 8/15/21, “to avoid bloodshed” in Afghanistan aka Islamic Emirate, only days after vowing he’d be among the leaders ready to defend their country; it is rumored that Ghani has flown to Uzbekistan. So after we’ve waged war in Afghanistan for 20 years, spent blood & treasure, over $2T, the Taliban warlords have surged across that country, opening prison doors, swelling their ranks, bent on exacting their strict Islamic Sharia law, murdering artists, musicians, translators, and all those who were against them, while gathering lists of females to be given to their Taliban brethren. Allah has rewarded them with victory over the infidels. Some say, “if we’d just have stayed a little longer & killed more people, we could have made a bigger difference”. Afghan national military & police dead 66,000; Taliban & opposition fighters dead 51,191; Afghan civilians dead 47,245; US contractors dead 3846; American military dead 2448; Allied service members dead 1144; Aid workers dead 444, Journalists dead 72. I thank President Biden for assuming the responsibility of ending our involvement, not sending my grandkids to fight the Taliban.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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