A U.S.-Taliban Deal: What Price for Peace?

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A U.S.-Taliban Deal: What Price for Peace?
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By Farkhondeh Akbari
February 25, 2020


Bitter experience shows that a “rotten compromise” will carry within it the seeds of future war.

Albert Einstein warned humanity to beware of rotten compromises. Philosopher Avishai Margalit sought to explain this warning in an entire book. With the U.S. and the Taliban poised to sign a peace agreement, now more than ever is the time to be wary of a “rotten compromise” on Afghanistan.

Rotten compromises, in the words of Margalit, are agreements that establish or maintain an inhuman regime, a regime associated with cruelty and humiliation, a regime that does not treat humans as humans. But a rotten compromise involves two sides – an active perpetrator committing the brutality, and the passive participant who supports and signs an agreement that maintains an inhuman regime.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/02/25/a_us-taliban_deal_what_price_for_peace_115068.html

[EdinVA]

Size of Afghanistan - 250,000 square miles (roughly the size of California and Oregon combined)
Population of Afghanistan - 38,000,000 (nearly the same population of California)
Size of Afghanistan military - 300,000 (somewhere around 8,000 American troops in Country)
Estimated size of Taliban - 25,000

This is NOT our fight, it is the responsibility of the Afghan people to determine their future unless they want to be our 51st state.
It is not our "deal" to negotiate, it is theirs and if they choose to allow a insignificant gang of thugs destroy their country, then so be it.

[Fishrrman]

"A U.S.-Taliban Deal: What Price for Peace?"

Sumpin' tells me that this "deal" is gonna be worth as much as the Paris Peace Accords Kissinger negotiated to obtain "peace with honor".

And last as long, or less.

So... what's that worth...?