Fools. The Taliban will never make peace in Afghanistan unless it has the upper hand. It will never stop fighting until Afghanistan is a Sharia state. It will use these peace talks to wring concessions from the government, the way the “Palestinians” use peace talks with Israel.
No, this does not mean we should stay ever longer in that endless quagmire. There has to be a better way.
“Afghanistan, the Taliban ‘may participate’ in the presidential elections,” Asia News, July 26, 2019:
Kabul (AsiaNews / Agencies) – The Taliban can participate in the presidential elections if they agree to sit down at the peace table with the Kabul government and end the 18-year war. This was stated by the spokesman of Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of the Islamic Republic, stressing that “the doors are open whenever they want to come to discuss with an Afghan government and take part in the democratic and national stage”.
Elections to choose the new president will take place on September 28th. The election campaign will officially begin in two days and there are currently 18 candidates (all men), including the current head of state Ashraf Ghani and a former warlord.
The Taliban have long wanted to sit in government positions, but they refuse to present themselves at the negotiating table with the Afghan government, which they consider a “puppet” in Washington’s hands.
For these reasons, the agreement reached in Doha, Qatar, between government representatives, activists and women on the one hand and members of the militant groups on the other, seemed to indicate a turning point. But the episodes of violence that occurred in the following days suggested the floundering of the historic agreement, which established a “road map for peace” with the goal of “zero civilian casualties”.
Meanwhile, in the same hours that the Afghan government announced the opening towards the Taliban, bombs exploded in three other cities of the country, causing in total more than 50 deaths, of which 10 in the capital….
Walter Sieruk says
With this news it desperately needs to be reiterate the message of the two very important points.
First,having actual, real, genuine productive “peace talks” with those brutal ,cruel misogynistic Taliban characters is an absurd and fool idea of folly.
One thing is for sure, even if even attempting to engage on “peace talks” with Taliban it would be best not to be naïve about them and take at face value anything that they might say or promise. To just “give trust away” to those Islamic characters who compose the Taliban would be foolishness and folly. For when trying to have genuine negotiations with the them ,it need to be kept in mind that there is an Islamic doctrine called TAQIYYA This is the Muslim dogma the lying and deception are good things to do, if and as long as the lies and deceit are done for the advancement of Islam.
For the deceptive and disingenuous Taliban have proven many times over, by their own actions, that they are a ruthless, brutal vicious gang of thugs with no honor. So in any kind of “dialogue” the Taliban will most likely speak the truth only when it happened to suite them. The rest of the time they will be speaking half-truths and also be outright lying. Likewise, the Taliban will keep their word in anything that they may happen to promise only and long as in fits into their agenda and no longer. So before engaging of the foolishness of attempting to have genuine “talks for a peace alliance” with Taliban, the officials of the current government would do well to heed the wisdom of Sun Tzu found in THE ART OF WAR. For it instructs “We cannot enter into an alliance neighboring’s princes, until we are acquainted with their designs.” To put this in a more updated and current way, it may be said that “We cannot enter into a peace alliance with the Taliban until we know the actual intentions and real schemes.”
Furthermore, if attempting to engage in “peace talks” with Taliban it would be very naïve to take at face value anything that the Taliban might promise. For example, the Taliban might say that they will respect the rights of women and girls, for they ,many times, employ the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya In those so called “negotiations” with officials of the West .Taaqyia ids the Islamic teaching that lying and deceit
So it may be nothing but foolishness and folly to even try to have worthwhile constructive peace discussions with lying brutal cruel men who make up the Taliban . For having a genuine practical peace compromise with Taliban might be impossible
As the former US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he said “There has never been – there never can be – successful compromise between good and evil.”
Second,on the morning of April 17, 2019 on FOX NEWS television the subject was covered about the idea of having “peace talks “with the Taliban. Viewing the history of the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan and the brutal ruthless misogyny they had engaged in was both vicious and malicious to the extreme.
Therefore the question ,naturally, was brought up ,now that peace talks” might soon begin, the Taliban it was asked it they return to power in Afghanistan “ would they respect female rights ?”
To that question the Taliban replied “that when back in power they would respect woman‘s rights but only to the limits of the cultural of will they permit those rights of women.”
The point is the the “cultural of Afghanistan” is really the religion of Afghanistan, which is Islam.
Therefore the reality is that female rights, for both girls and woman, will not exist in a future Taliban controlled Islamic state of Afghanistan . For Islam is a religion of harsh and malice- filled misogyny.
As explained in the book, by Brigitte Gabriel, of the title THEY MUST BE STOPPED. Her book informs the readers on page 172. “Woman in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
CogitoErgoSum says
If only they had their own version of Ilhan Omar, she would be a sure winner.
Keys says
News update:
The peace talks will be held at the Star Wars Mos Eisley Cantina where “you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn0OHpTuroY
Angemon says
I’m sure they’ll agree to “peace” as a means to get foreign powers to press the Afghan government to capitulate to their demands…
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Government says Taliban may participate in the presidential elections if it agrees to peace talks
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More ludicrous kabuki theater…
cornelius says
ROBERT: No, this does not mean we should stay ever longer in that endless quagmire. There has to be a better way.
We’re all ears fearless leader. Suggestions?
Our options…..
1) Abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban and witness it becoming a base for international terror the way it was before 9-11.
2) Stay indefinitely….squandering our nation’s precious blood and treasure.
3) This is the option I favor…..continue to support the current Afghan government, but with a far smaller footprint. No more ground patrols excepting specific special-forces operations to gather intelligence or kill high-value targets….relying primarily on our air-force to alter battlefield dynamics between the Taliban and the ANA….and to prevent the Taliban from massing large forces for large battles, forcing them to continue to rely on small-scale attacks and thus, maintaining the status quo.
sidney penny says
Is Pakistan still supporting the Taliban?
Ren says
The Talibans are dressed up just like antifas.