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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow long before we learn who approved and had brokered the Taliben peace deal?
I've always suspected Putin was behind this deal to get Baradar and his 5,000 fighters released using his puppet , and to create chaos to hurt Biden with. I don't think his puppet would do anything like this without being ordered to or approval of by Putin. This looks and smells of Putin. Did they bribe or threaten the Afghan fighters to not fight them , or else?
Joinfortmill
(14,247 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)If they don't want to fight for their own country I have
little sympathy for them. It looked like far more people
were at the airport trying to get out then there were in the Taliban. After we spend 20 years training them and arming them and they turn and run, I don't care. I am more concerned about the attempted and ongoing coup in this country.
Progressive Jones
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Klaralven
(7,510 posts)The Obama administration, however, was more fearful of his military expertise than it was hopeful about his supposedly moderate leanings. The CIA tracked him down to Karachi in 2010 and in February of that year persuaded ISI to arrest him.
The capture of Baradar was predominantly instigated because of his role in the war rather than because of the likelihood that he was going to suddenly make peace, a former official said. The fact is, the Pakistanis held on to him all those years in large part because the United States asked them to.
In 2018, however, Washingtons attitude changed and Donald Trumps Afghan envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, asked the Pakistanis to release Baradar so he could lead negotiations in Qatar, based on the belief that he would settle for a power-sharing arrangement. I had never seen any real substantiation of that point, but it just took on a kind of mythic idea, the former official said.
Baradar signed the Doha agreement with the US in February 2020, in what the Trump administration hailed as a breakthrough towards peace but which now appears a mere staging post towards total Taliban victory.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/talibans-abdul-ghani-baradar-is-undisputed-victor-of-a-20-year-war
Zalmay Khalilzad, a Pashtun-American, has been working on Afghan foreign policy since the Carter Adminstration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
He's a prime example of why no person with ethnic ties to Country X should ever be allowed to work on foreign policy regarding Country X.
crickets
(25,896 posts)Behold, what is old is new again.
The article circulated back in the day when Bush/Cheney were talking about going to Afghanistan, and it is unsurprising to see it circulating again today. As it should.