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Afghanistan
Taliban clarifies PEACEFUL MESSAGE to USA.
2018-02-23
More on this story from a week ago.
[TheLongWarJournal] The Afghan Taliban issued a “Letter of the Islamic Emirate to the American people” on Feb. 14, which was reported as an appeal for negotiations between the Taliban and the United States. Instead, the Taliban demanded that the US and the West withdraw from Afghanistan so the Taliban can establish its government.

The lengthy “letter” is reproduced in full, below. Throughout the letter, the Taliban said the only acceptable outcome is for the US to quit so it can return to power. The following two paragraphs neatly summarized the Taliban’s position. First, the Taliban referred to itself: “we” and the “the Islamic Emirate” were used interchangeably. Then note how the Taliban considered itself, not the Afghan government, as the “representative of its people” [emphasis ours]:

After the Taliban established that only it can represent the Afghan people, it lays out its terms for “peace.” And that is US withdrawal and a return of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan:
Posted by:3dc

#7  Kill a few thousand more of them. Can’t hurt.
Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724   2018-02-23 18:24  

#6  very difficult people. They don't give up easily. Lady Sale, one of the very few British survivors of the First Afghan War, wrote this about the Afghan noble Jan Fishan Khan, who sided with the British:
"He had one wife with him in Cabul [i.e. Kabul] when the insurrection broke out, and urged her to fly to Paghman [his family estate outside the capital] for safety; the old chief told me, her reply was worth a lakh (150,000) of rupees,
'I will not leave you ; if you fall, we die together; and if you are victorious, we will rejoice together!'"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-23 17:28  

#5  You know, after a review of Afghanistan's history, you get the feeling that the Pashtuns are a very very difficult people.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-02-23 14:16  

#4  The caravan passed. All was silent,
Afghanistan no longer violent.
"May your she-camels starve
As we Taliban carve
Up our peaceful Mohammedan island!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-02-23 14:09  

#3  Despite the posturing (by Kissinger et alii) and the Nobel "Peace" Prize that is basically what Vo Nguyen Giap wanted and got in Vietnam... So their negotiating stance has recent historical precedent.

So what follows, a secession of bombing, a democratic cut-off of all funding, followed by a pull out ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-23 06:36  

#2  Despite the posturing (by Kissinger et alii) and the Nobel "Peace" Prize that is basically what Vo Nguyen Giap wanted and got in Vietnam... So their negotiating stance has recent historical precedent.
Posted by: magpie   2018-02-23 03:03  

#1  Return to what? Gangster thugs with bloodlust?
You are sick people in that taliban. Curse you.
Posted by: newc   2018-02-23 01:31  

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