Donald Trump seems to want to pack up and leave the country…
Cutting a deal with the Taliban and NOT the afghan’s ain’t gonna work…
This IS gonna NOT come out good…
Just packing and running…
But Donald Trump is NOT into worrying about others…
The hard-line Islamist group had observed a “reduction in violence” in the week leading up to the agreement.
The deal included a commitment to hold peace talks with the Afghan government.
But the group’s spokesman said on Monday the talks would not go ahead if 5,000 Taliban prisoners held by the government were not released.
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The release formed part of the agreement signed on Saturday in Qatar with the US.
But on Sunday, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani told reporters his government had agreed to no such release.
“There is no commitment to releasing 5,000 prisoners,” Mr Ghani said. “This is the right and the self-will of the people of Afghanistan. It could be included in the agenda of the intra-Afghan talks, but cannot be a prerequisite for talks.”
The Taliban have previously refused to negotiate with the Afghan government, so Saturday’s deal was just with the US, which invaded Afghanistan weeks after the September 2001 attacks in New York by al-Qaeda, then based in Afghanistan.
The Taliban were ousted from power but became an insurgent force that by 2018 was active in more than two-thirds of the country….