"A Major U.S. Concession To The Taliban?" Topic

"The Trump administration is weighing a possible deal with the Taliban that would refer to the insurgents by the name of their former hard-line regime, which Washington has previously rejected as illegitimate, two foreign diplomats and a Taliban source told NBC News.

If approved in a final agreement, the phrase "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" would be greeted as a diplomatic coup by the Taliban, who have presented themselves as a government in waiting since they were ousted from power in a U.S.-led intervention in 2001. But Afghan officials and skeptics of the negotiations have long viewed any reference to the former Taliban regime as repugnant, and a potentially damaging concession…"
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IMHO this is a mistake. It is bad enough that the U.S. has shut-out the Afghan government in these talks, but they are now positioning the Taliban to say that they are the "legitimate" government of Afghanistan. It is clear that the U.S. wants to leave Afghanistan, and the sooner the better…but this is not going to end well.

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Armand

I agree it will be a mistake if they proceed, and I can't imagine the Talis can be trusted with any "agreement".

This is a unifying point of which the US, Russia, and China can agree. All three have had problems with Islamic terrorism. The Taliban can call themselves whatever they want, but we must never agree to call them that.

Agree!.

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Armand