Historic talks to begin between Taliban, Afghan government

Peace first , reparations next.

i doubt the Taliban will accept unless they can turn it into an hardcore Islamic caliphate

The current Afghanistan government already applies Sharia, so the difference is not that big.

The US has no business babysitting a Shariah government, and in a country that did not invite them anyway.

Stop the misguided foreign wars now.

man this Trump guy just has to stop bringing all this peace to the world. I don’t know who he thinks he is!

man this Trump guy just has to stop bringing all this peace to the world. I don’t know who he thinks he is!

So, he’s going to get the Nobel Peace Prize and re-elected? Don’t book the band yet, I’d err on the side of caution.

Yeah I would believe that. He has earned the Nobel prize and I doubt Americans have any interest in a Biden presidency.

Blacklabel

man this Trump guy just has to stop bringing all this peace to the world. I don’t know who he thinks he is!

Yeah! We need to go back to the good old days of invading countries, killing dictators, introducing "democracy" to countries who don´t want them, impose no-fly zones, aid head-cutting terrorists aka "vetted rebels", and keeping countries occupied forever. Orangutan bad!

Wow, Taliban. Haven't heard that word in a long time.

Historically nobody attacking Afganistan and we are talking 1,000s of years has ever walked away happy. Just don't go there, just don't expect to win anything. Walk away leave them to it.

man this Trump guy just has to stop bringing all this peace to the world.

Is this a sick joke? You call this situation 'peace'? Spend decades wrecking an entire region and then claim credit when you slightly stop wrecking it? And Trump wants a gong for this?

Trump has a new theater of war; his own citizens.

Yeah I would think it’s a good thing when you the only one in decades NOT wrecking an entire region

i mean the last guy wrecked it too by your words yet got a peace prize didn’t he?

ClippetyClop

 You call this situation 'peace'? Spend decades wrecking an entire region and then claim credit when you slightly stop wrecking it? And Trump wants a gong for this?

Well, yeah! You prefer to to continue this decades-long indefensible waste of lifes and ressources? Where is Biden on this?

man this Trump guy just has to stop bringing all this peace to the world.

Just looks like straight up trolling to me. This is between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance (which the media won't name), brokered by Qatar. What, no praise for Qatar? About all I can give the quoted claim is that the article also drug in Trump out of left field.

President Donald Trump, up for re-election in November, has pushed hard to end America's longest war

Can anyone flesh out this claim? The article does not even try. U.S. Imperial force numbers nearly doubled under Trump before being nearly halved for a net change of near zero since Obama (who expanded the war way beyond even Bush before cutting troops). So what is the claim based on? All further withdrawals are based on "conditions" (from the Trump admin) which seem unlikely to be met in a time of record civilian casualties. That indicates a high chance of all conditions going to pot and an actual end for the U.S. direct meddling right with it. Doesn't sound like pushing hard to me.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/15/reality-check-still-same-number-of-us-troops-in-afghanistan/

Bush really, really messed up the response to 9/11.

Instead of sending in US troops to surround the Tora Bora caves, and defeat Al Qaeda, Bush let them escape, and then decided to overthrow the Taliban government of Afghanistan. It is too late to change history, but our goal should have been to defeat Al Qaeda, not eliminate the Taliban.

This is not to say that I am a fan of the Taliban. But, there are a lot of people of whom I am not a fan. Do I recommend that we go to war with all of them? Absolutely not. Don't stir up the hornets' nest unnecessarily.

Bush let them escape, and then decided to overthrow the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

The war was not meant to won. It was meant to be continuous, trading blood for dollars. Also Bush could not kill a family member of his bin Laden friends! That would have been most rude!

Besides, his real point was to invade Iraq. It was right clever of the evil dirtbag to get the ball rolling in Afghanistan. The American sheeple were prepared to follow their shepherd over molten lava to get to the gates of Hell! He led them almost as they deserved. They lost a few sons but otherwise prospered. Its too bad they have not suffered 1/100th what the innocent people of Afghanistan have.