“We know what will happen if we leave on 1 May,” he warned. Dunford Jr., former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended this month. That’s essentially what a blue-ribbon commission co-chaired by retired Gen.
One is to stay - and perhaps even make the U.S. The Taliban denies responsibility, but few believe the denial.Īfter 19 years, it’s still worth trying to bring this tragic misadventure to an end in a way that avoids needless damage along the way. And someone - presumably the Taliban - has launched a remorseless campaign of assassinations against judges, journalists and teachers, especially women. Meanwhile, the Taliban has continued pushing the government’s underperforming army out of big swaths of territory. The United States promised to begin lifting international sanctions against the Taliban, but when the war escalated and the peace talks deadlocked, the U.S. The Afghan government promised to enter serious peace talks with the Taliban, but it has dragged its feet. The Taliban promised to reduce attacks on government troops and civilian officials it hasn't. Neither the Taliban, the Afghan government nor the United States have kept all their commitments under the year-old agreement. That's under a deal the Trump administration made last year with the Taliban, the Islamic guerrilla group fighting the Kabul government.īut it's far from certain that will happen. On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. Afghan soldiers arrive at the site of a suicide bombing west of Kabul.
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