The Biden Administration’s Afghan ‘Peace Plan’ Is an Act of Desperation

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The Biden Administration’s Afghan ‘Peace Plan’ Is an Act of Desperation
It puts pressure on the Afghan government while whitewashing the Taliban, for starters.
   
Thomas Joscelyn
Mar 11   
 
   
(Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.)

On Sunday, March 7, an Afghan media outlet, TOLOnews, published a leaked letter from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to President Ashraf Ghani. TOLOnews also published an eight-page “peace” proposal by the State Department. While Foggy Bottom hasn’t yet officially acknowledged the authenticity of either document, American press outlets have cited anonymous officials confirming that both documents are genuine.

Per the February 29, 2020, agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban, the U.S. has until May 1, 2021, to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan. If the Biden administration fails to do so, then U.S. forces could be more frequently targeted by the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and allied jihadists once again. For the past year, the jihadists have been willing to let the Americans leave. That could change quickly if May 1 comes and goes without a withdrawal extension. Thus far, the Taliban has rejected any suggestion that U.S. or allied forces stay past the agreed upon withdrawal date.

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Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation many months before presenting it.  He waited until the North won a big battle so it would like it was introduced from a position of strength, not weakness.  The US should pull out all the white "domestic terrorists" and replace them with a division of gay and trannie women to throw the butts of ISIS Jihadis around, then negotiate from strength.

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Biden pressured by Trump’s Afghan deal as May 1 decision looms

American Military News by Peter Martin and Eltaf Najafizada - Bloomberg News   March 14, 2021

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/biden-pressured-by-trumps-afghan-deal-as-may-1-decision-looms/

President Joe Biden is under pressure to decide whether to abide by an Afghanistan peace deal reached in Donald Trump’s final year aimed at bringing the 2,500 troops left in the country home after almost two decades of war.

The challenge is pulling it off without leaving the Taliban poised to retake power.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken bluntly told Afghanistan’s president in a recent letter to accelerate peace talks with the Taliban, saying he should “understand the urgency of my tone.” But with Taliban-led violence continuing to destabilize Afghanistan, Biden may have little choice but to extend the drawdown timeline to ensure President Ashraf Ghani’s government doesn’t become a casualty of the withdrawal.

Biden “is in a bind,” said Madiha Afzal, a Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution. “If we leave on May 1, violence between the Taliban and Kabul will certainly increase, and Afghanistan will devolve into some state of protracted violence. If we stay, the Taliban will start attacking American troops again and Biden will be saddled with the blame of just having lengthened America’s longest war.”

The question of troop levels in Afghanistan has vexed U.S. presidents since American forces were sent to oust the Taliban government in late 2001 after it refused to hand over al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The American military presence has surged, contracted and surged again as successive U.S. presidents have reevaluated what’s possible in the war-ravaged nation. None could figure out how to leave.