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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 13, 2019, 10:31:44 am
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US Pushes Toward “Face-Saving Way Outâ€: Ex-CIA Official | TOLOnews
The ongoing negotiations between the US and the Taliban are a “charade†designed simply to provide the US a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,†former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said as quoted by Axios.
US President Donald Trump wants to move quickly toward a deal to end the war in Afghanistan. But according to Axios, Morell is one of several experts and former officials warning that such a deal won’t secure peace.
“The president has said the Taliban is tired. That’s not true. The Taliban controls more territory than at any time since the 9/11 attacks and it seeks what it has always sought: to fully control Afghanistan as a one-party state,†Morell said as quoted by Axios.
He said a recent Taliban video that justifies the 9/11 attacks based on “interventionist†US policies — and threatens “vengeance†against Afghan security forces — “represents [the Taliban's] true views†more clearly than anything told to US negotiators.
Read more at: https://www.tolonews.com/afghanistan/us-pushes-toward-%E2%80%9Cface-saving-way-out%E2%80%9D-ex-cia-official (https://www.tolonews.com/afghanistan/us-pushes-toward-%E2%80%9Cface-saving-way-out%E2%80%9D-ex-cia-official)
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"US President Donald Trump wants to move quickly toward a deal to end the war in Afghanistan. But according to Axios, Morell is one of several experts and former officials warning that such a deal won’t secure peace."
Why the farce of "peace"?
As soon as we move out, the Taliban (among others) will begin to re-assert themselves and fill the vacuum.
This is what islam does.
Who does not see this coming?