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2020-02-22 Afghanistan
US ‘Playing Games’ With Taliban Peace Talks, Has ‘No Intention of Leaving Afghanistan’ - Academic
[SPUTNIKNEWS] For the second time in a year, US and Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
leaders are making an attempt at brokering peace in Afghanistan - or are they? One expert told Sputnik Washington is "playing games" with the Taliban in an attempt to blunt the militia group’s attacks, stall its momentum and force its resistance to collapse, as the US never intends to leave the country.

The deal will tentatively be signed by US and Taliban leaders on February 29, provided the week prior sees a "reduction in violence," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday. If the truce lasts, nationwide peace talks would begin within 10 days of the signing - another monumental achievement, since the Taliban has so far refused to talk with the government in Kabul that replaced it when US forces and local allies overthrew the militia group in late 2001. The Taliban would also have to forswear support for terrorist groups in the country, which include the Haqqani Network, Islamic State

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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-Khorasan and, of course, its own terrorist tactics.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
those talks could yield a new government in Kabul, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. US troops would begin a phased withdrawal over the course of 18 months. There are roughly 13,000 US troops in Afghanistan, who have been fighting an 18-year-long war that Washington has been forced to admit it no longer knows if it’s winning or not. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper is quoted as saying the deal would only reduce US troop levels to 8,600 - roughly what they were when US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
took office in 2017.

University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle told Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary Friday that the precise details haven’t yet been made public, and when they become public he may change his mind, but that "from what’s been leaked in the press, I can’t say I’m overly optimistic."

"All Trump has done right now is to agree to withdraw to the level of troops that [former US President Barack] Obama had in there. So I can’t say I’m terribly optimistic right now without reading the details ... It could be that the American strategy here is to sort of play games with the ousted Taliban government with no real intention of leaving Afghanistan that we illegally invaded in the first place in order to better steal all the oil and gas in Central America."

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#1 Could be a game called “let’s have a good look at you, buddy”
Posted by Grunter 2020-02-22 00:16||   2020-02-22 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Given the vast amounts of rare metals I should hope so.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-02-22 00:37||   2020-02-22 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee I didn't even know that Afghanistan was in Central America and that it had huge oil and gas resources.
I learn something new every day.
Posted by daniel  2020-02-22 01:02||   2020-02-22 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Afghanistan that we illegally invaded in the first place in order to better steal all the oil and gas in Central America

Can someone explain ? I'm at my wits' end.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-22 02:18||   2020-02-22 02:18|| Front Page Top

#5 It seems the Russians are learning something from the Iranians after all.
Posted by Jirt Platypus8917 2020-02-22 04:39||   2020-02-22 04:39|| Front Page Top

#6  [Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Boyle] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Boyle
Francis Anthony Boyle (born March 25, 1950) is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He has served as counsel for Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been a staunch supporter of the rights of indigenous peoples and Palestinians.
Posted by b 2020-02-22 06:05||   2020-02-22 06:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Graduate of Harvard/U of Chicago, and Harvard Law. Our Best and Brightest™
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-22 06:48||   2020-02-22 06:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Can someone explain ? I'm at my wits' end.

Sputnik, typo, should be 'Central Asia'.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-22 08:03||   2020-02-22 08:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, the deep state certainly has no intention of leaving Afghanistan. They already spent a trillion dollars of our money and will happily spend a trillion more. Their interests do not overlap with our interests. Who cares how many soldiers die or are horribly hurt? They aren't holding rifles, our servicemen are the deplorables.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-22 10:22||   2020-02-22 10:22|| Front Page Top

#10 He has served as counsel for Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been a staunch supporter of the rights of indigenous peoples and Palestinians.

So an anti-democratic, anti-western shrill.

Got it.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-22 10:38||   2020-02-22 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 #7 Yes, but even the fact that he's a Harvard grad doesn't conclusively prove he's an idiot.
Posted by Matt 2020-02-22 10:49||   2020-02-22 10:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Sputnik News / govt of the RF are using this clown to poke a stick at Uncke Sam, nothing more. No different from Voice of America poking a stick at the Soviet Bear back in the day.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-22 11:43||   2020-02-22 11:43|| Front Page Top

#13  Graduate of Harvard/U of Chicago, and Harvard Law. Our Best and Brightest™

A graduate of what Nassim Taleb (Black Swan, Antifragile guy) sneeringly refers to as the "Soviet-Harvard complex".
Posted by SteveS 2020-02-22 11:55||   2020-02-22 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Get the F*** out before the virus hits big.
Posted by 3dc 2020-02-22 13:28||   2020-02-22 13:28|| Front Page Top










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