Trump and Pompeo's Taliban 'peace deal' immediately hammered by conservative as a fraud

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Trump and Pompeo’s Taliban ‘peace deal’ immediately hammered by conservative as a fraud

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trump-and-pompeos-taliban-peace-deal-immediately-hammered-by-conservative-as-a-fraud/


on February 29, 2020 By Tom Boggioni

In a column for the Washington Post, longtime conservative Max Boot claimed that the highly-touted peace deal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed early Saturday morning with Afghan officials is much less than what the White House is selling to the public.

Beginning by warning of the “treachery of labels,” Boot pointed out, “It has been heartening to see a steep reduction in violence over the past week — a U.S. precondition for signing the deal — but there is no agreement on a permanent cease-fire, much less a resolution of all the issues that divide the democratically elected Afghan government from the Taliban. What was signed on Saturday is an agreement to try to reach an agreement. To get even this far, the United States had to drop its long-standing demand for intra-Afghan negotiations to precede a U.S. troop drawdown.”


However, he points out, what may follow will likely not be what was promised.
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“If I had to bet now, I would say that the ‘ugly’ scenario is the most likely and the ‘good’ scenario the least likely,” he elaborated. “The ‘bad’ scenario — with the Taliban dominating an ostensibly democratic government at gunpoint — is in the middle in terms of probability. How bad it would be depends on whether the Taliban would try to enforce their medieval mores on city dwellers, as they did in the 1990s, or whether, like Hezbollah, they would now tolerate different social systems in different parts of the country. The odds are they will be as brutal as ever — though they have promised to be more progressive in the future.”


According to the columnist, the real problem with the agreement as it now stands, is that it is designed more to please Donald Trump than it is to end the conflict................... ....

[CatMor]

1. Everything trump does is designed to please trump.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. Of course it is.

Probably why no one is really interested in it. Another pathetic stunt. Cannot believe Pompass is our SOS.

[Snarkoleptic]

3. Meanwhile, John Bolton criticizes it as a "Obama-style deal".

Drop by an enjoy the 'ratio' here-
Maybe comment as well.

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[Takket]

4. i heard this deal releases 5000 Taliban prisoners of war..........

Remember when Obama released a few prisoners from Gitmo, sent them I think to Oman where they were supposed to be carefully tracked by the government.... and the right LOST ITS MINDS that he was doing that?