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2021-10-25 Afghanistan
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US Was Losing War So It Negotiated: Khalilzad
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[ToloNews] The former US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said the US was losing the war to the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
so it chose peace negotiations deal as an alternative.
Talking to CBS News, Khalilzad said the US military tried many times to strengthen its position on the battleground, but it failed. "The negotiation was a result of--based on the judgment that we weren’t winning the war and therefore time was not on our side and better to make a deal sooner than later."
Khalilzad blamed the then-president Ashraf Ghani
 ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
for the disintegration of Afghanistan’s security sector, saying his escape triggered the chaos in the Afghan capital.
That seems an incomplete way of looking at it... He said the Taliban was in discussions with him about forming a power-sharing government and including some officials of the Ghani administration in the next government. All these things did not happen because Ghani did not stay, he said.
Khalilzad said Ghani did not want to let go of power, and discredited Ghani's remarks about fleeing Kabul to avoid bloodshed, saying they were not true. "So, the question is, why did President Ghani do what he did? If he was willing to step aside for the sake of peace, imagine if he had offered that a year ago, six months ago -- that somebody that's mutually acceptable could have led the government. But he did not," he said.
There was nobody mutual, since the Taliban would accept no one not their own. They were in it for the reconquest. According to Khalilzad, the US has largely succeeded in suppressing Al Qaeda- the reason it went to Afghanistan--but has failed in building a democratic Afghanistan.
No, the Afghans failed to build democracy despite two decades of aid and support. Horses and water, donchaknow. He said the two decades of US involvement has transformed Afghanistan and now "the Taliban are going to have a hard time putting them back in the box the way they had put people in the 1990s."
Hopefully true. Possibly wishful thinking. Khalilzad said the US wanted a different outcome for the Afghan peace talks, preferably a power-sharing government with the Taliban instead of what happened on August 15.
That was definitely wishful thinking. Khalilzad said the Taliban has lived up to its promise of cutting ties with terrorist groups
...for a given value of cutting that means binding more firmly... and not allowing Afghanistan to be used for staging attacks against the US and its allies. "They are not allowing plotting and planning operations by al-Qaeda against the United States," he said.
But what happens despite their forbidding is clearly not their responsibility, or even interest, right? Nor anything at all by anyone not Al Qaeda, since not-Al Qaeda isn’t being forbidden anything... According to Khalilzad, if the Islamic Emirate does not form an inclusive government and does not respect the rights of Afghans, the relationship between Afghanistan and the US will not become normal.
A terrifying threat for a Dark Ages culture, to be sure. Khalilzad also warned of a possible civil war if the Afghan economy collapses. He said if the "Taliban don't move toward more inclusiveness, respecting the rights of the Afghan people, and then honoring their commitment to us on terrorism; there will be no move towards normality and there shouldn't be. There should be no release of funds. So their economy could collapse and in that collapse a new civil war could start."
What was their reconquest if not a civil war for the last decade or so? Khalilzad said Afghanistan has many problems, and the US should help it come to an agreement on a formula that is acceptable by urban and rural Afghans, and by secular and religious Afghans, to end troubles in the country.
‘Taint no sech thing, Buddy Boy. And so the troubles will not end. 
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