Here are some of the key elements in that political resolution:Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani ahead of Saturday's signing ceremony between the U.S. and the Taliban in Qatar's capital, Doha.Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images
O'Hanlon warns this agreement cannot repeat what the U.S. signed with the North Vietnamese in the 1973 Paris peace talks,"where we basically take on faith that the enemy is going to behave itself once we're gone." A drawdown of the approximately 7,000 forces from other NATO member states in Afghanistan would take place in tandem with the departure of U.S. troops.U.S. officials insist the troop withdrawal timeline will depend primarily on one condition: the degree to which the Taliban fulfills its commitment in the peace deal not to allow Afghanistan to be used as a base of operations by insurgencies such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State.
Just as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan is the Taliban's main demand in this agreement, the U.S. has made the Taliban's forswearing of ties to other insurgencies its top ask. in prepared Congressional testimony."There is a branch of the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, but I have seen no evidence that it presents a threat to the U.S. and it is under pressure from the Afghans, including from the Taliban."Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, speaks to the press ahead of Saturday's signing ceremony with the United States in Qatar.
The same official expressed admiration for the care Taliban leaders have shown for freeing their fighters, while adding,"The agreement makes explicit that those who are released need to make commitments that they won't go back to the battlefield and that they will support the agreement." The reduction in violence of the past week is intended to be a step toward an overall cessation of hostilities to be worked out in Oslo.
It's not a peace deal. It is surrender.
We leave, Russian moves in. All going great for Putin.
We get nothing and they get 5,000 prisoners released that will again try and kill Americans and others
Releasing 5000 terrorists...huh...good work Trump! Moron.
Trump is really desperate
It's not great; another capitulation IMHO.
Why do I have the feeling that, although I would salute the State Dept if this comes to pass, this is Russian/Taliban joint tactic that will fall apart on Nov 4th?
This is bullshit.
Is this something that could not have been accomplished 5, 10, or 15 years ago? It’s a real shame that people die for no reason.
And I got a bridge I can sell ya from WA to Hawaii...
The one important issue is that the price will be payed after Election Day
Oh yeah, that's a trustworthy group. Good grief that is as good as we could do?
The Democrat mainstream media won't even report this. Good news for Trump means no news for you!
Don't fall for the re-election optics folks. trump is not interested in uniting anyone. Division is his rule of law.
“eventual peace”
a win for trump you got to give his administration some sort of credit
Anything in there about how they treat women? Don’t we have an obligation to fight for those that can’t fight for themselves?
Sure. How convenient for trump he’s pulling our chain again! He really thinks all the Taliban cells are going to cease there destruction?
So glad this Administration is working toward making progress in the Middle East utilizing strong and smart measures. TRUMP2020LandsideReElectionVictory
So they get everything they want? Back to the way it was.
Funny. It only took the Soviets ten years to give up.
Praying for real peace there.
Hopefully the talks will be inter party. Otherwise they will be talking to themselves.
TPRNews That should do it. Thanks very much, Ray.
Girls’ education should have been part of the agreement. Without that it’s US support of institutionalized misogyny.
The Taliban will do exactly what the North Vietnamese did and the country will be a theocracy within a year after the US exit.
I gave it a week! After seeing this , I give it 14 months!! realDonaldTrump must have gotten a beautiful letter from the Taliban!!!
The Taliban: Peace promised for Afghanistan, until we leave.
Enter all the war mongers...
How many innocents did the US military kill for corporations? How nany were maimed? The people want to know.
A withdrawal from what sovereign taliban land?
Defeat.
If you are looking for an October 2020 surprise: All the troops are home early, just in time for the election.
Is this an episode of MST3K?
Coming soon: Trump Hotel Afghanistan
And the women?
Wow, the war might finally be over and all I read is liberals criticizing the President for ending the war. How freaking pathetic....
The devil is in the details, but this sounds promising.
They have prisoners?
It’s a joke. The Taliban are a terrorist organization.
A Tweet for everything...……..
What about other countries' troops in Afghanistan? Does treaty only impact US & did Trump bother to inform, involve othr nations, NATO? & what happens when Taliban renew terror or reimpose sharia law harming women? .npr .msnbc .nytimes .washingtonpost .thehill .huffpost
Prisoner swaps? When Obama did that, the cons flipped their wig. Now it’s ok.
At first I thought those were dog silhouettes
Just broadly speaking, I find it hilarious that theses guys are running around all excited about potentially ending a war that they themselves started and was entirely unfounded. 9/11 was the excuse for enriching Dick Cheney and friends. Now we should all be excited? F you.
Hey! How about a spoiler alert for SHO_Homeland fans!
how much opium will they be providing Trump Syndicate for distribution?
Once we get our prisoners back they can bomb and snipe them when it falls through and the liberals will cry for their “austere religious leaders”
You forgot a biggie: the release of Taliban prisoners.
Over or under on 2 weeks till we find out it’s all bunk?
This is nothing more than a capitulation after sacrificing thousands of American lives!!! Sure everybody wants to bring the boys home, but to do so with absolutely nothing in return to satisfy a political campaign promise is typical of Trump's foreign policy.....PATHETIC!!!
I hope the US never forgets what ignited the ME hell: This is a video where H. Clinton discusses what the USA did in Afghanistan in 1979. Clinton suggests the activity was a response to a Soviet invasion. Brzezinski says it was the other way around (👇).
Wasn't there a deal with Kim Jong-un too
That is a very lopsided and shaky peace deal.
Like the BS with N Korea, another fake victory.
This “win” might last all the way into next week.
And as soon as we’re gone they’ll take over and kill all the opposition. It’ll be just like Saigon. We just never learn.
Trump has now empowered two terrorist organizations, along with giving the country responsible for 9/11 a pass to continue killing Americans.
US Get out of all countries Time to improve the US economy of all citizens
A commitment by the Taliban to end support for U.S.-deemed 'terrorist organizations' ?
Signed on a MercuryRetrograde !!!!! Sooooo not good! Highly likely it doesn’t stick! astrology tells the truth
What about women's rights ?
So nothing about keeping all the gains women have made in the last 18 years? I'd expect nothing less of this administration.
Taliban back in charge in 36 months
This give the Taliban all the power over the citizens in Afghanistan
Did I miss the part where mentioned how many Afghans were killed?
I saw this last week on Homeland
The “historic accord”: they win, we slink home.
Pakol hats Kevlar Helmets
You are right if you think this is funny, head-scratchingly out there and ludicrous
I was under the impression the United States did not negotiate with terrorists
trump is cut and running.....LOSER
Mishin Ackomplished
Look over here! Look over here! Don't pay attention to that bad stuff over there, look what we just did! We did good!
Half these responses just show how much 'liberals' lust war just as much as the right. Absolutely demented.
Well... considering the USA recently has broken another signed agreements with the Kurds, Iran and with the planet... I don’t know..
This will be a catastrophe.
Making deals with the Taliban feels like asking Dingoes Who Eat Babies to a temporary truce on baby-eating
Imagine if Obama did this, Leningrad Lyndsay would be screaming from the rooftops of appeasement.
As a tax payer I'm livid about this waste of money but imagine being the family of a soldier who died or was injured for yet another foreign policy disaster.
Signing peace deals with people responsible for killing thousands of us soldiers ... if obama had signed such a deal trump would have destroyed it
Heard this sort of thing before. Temporary at best.
Should have never been there in the first place.
Peace deal? Nice way of saying we lost the war.
We invaded Afghanistan to defear Al Qaeda and remove the Taliban. I guess this means we lost the war.
Negotiating with terrorists, I wonder what Trump would tweet if this was Obama...
imranKhan and other negotiating parties 👍
I'm confused. Donald Rumsfeld told me in checks notes 2004 that 'for all intents and purposes the Taliban is dead.'
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Where is the Republican outcry for negotiating with terrorists? Crickets?
Full capitulation after 2400 US troops dead and $1T spent
Thank you President Trump! About time!
This isn't historic, they will break the deal the second the US leaves, the Taliban cannot be trusted. This is a cut and run nothing more.
Another L for realDonaldTrump, negotiating with terrorists
Nothing will change. Nothing has changed.
But allows Taliban to terrorize women and girls,deny women and girls civil rights, education, health care all in the name of religion Shame on Trump and GOP sycophants.
And this is the impetus for the removal of our troops. Thank you again President Trump! Bringing political prisoners and prisoners-of-war home, along with bringing home warriors imprisoned in a theater of war that will always be a theater of war
Oh Lord how many Trump towers did they agree to build? How many nuclear weapons did we tell them we would give them? What dumb deal did Trump make
An accord with terrorists. That sounds about right for Donald Trump
Ah so now NPR shows an opinion about something. Glad I stopped listening.
Yo’ Taliban. Trump always lies and never lives up to ANY agreements. Unless of course you can extort him. It’s his M. O.
Can the US govt be trusted on anything?
The deal stipulates that the U.S. will begin the process of drawing down troops 8,600 in the first 135 days and withdraw forces from five bases.
What did we achieve?
Great! now lets confront homegrown terrorists in the US
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