On Saturday, after 19 years of war, the United States and the Taliban began what both sides delicately called a seven-dayin Afghanistan, a trial attempt at a partial truce. If the experiment works, they have set Feb. 29 for a ceremony to sign an agreement that would launch broader peace negotiations.
According to their accounts, the deal calls for the United States to trim its troop presence from about 12,000 to 8,600 by July — and later, if all goes well, to zero. Or as the Taliban put it in a statement Friday, the deal would lead to “the withdrawal of all foreign forces … so that our people can live a peaceful and prosperous life under the shade of an Islamic system.”
That hasn’t happened. Sen. Lindsey Graham and other Republican hawks are already grumbling about trusting the Taliban and the folly, in their view, of reducing troops below 8,600. And allowing the Taliban to win a share of power — or potentially dominate the government in Kabul — will diminish whatever hope remains of helping Afghanistan become a recognizable democracy.
More proof LAT is just some deep state propaganda smh
Was your opinion the same when president Nixon got the United States out of Vietnam? I didn't think so. Double standard here again. Anti Trump
Gorbachev's exit from Afghanistan got the Soviets out sooner, than later.
We gave it 19 years, a trillion dollars, and more importantly, the lives of American soldiers. There's only shame in losing more.
We should leave the region. Blood and sand... well, and opium.
Finally
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