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Time: Exclusive: Secretary of State Pompeo Declines to Sign Risky Afghan Peace Deal
The U.S. is closing in on a deal with the Taliban that is designed to wind down America’s 18-year war in Afghanistan, but the best indication of how risky the pact may be is this: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is declining to sign it, according to senior U.S., Afghan and European officials.
The “agreement in principle” that U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has hammered out in nine rounds of talks with Taliban representatives in Qatar would take the first tentative steps toward peace since U.S. and allied forces deployed to Afghanistan following the attacks on 9/11, according to senior Afghan and Trump Administration officials familiar with its general terms. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was scheduled to discuss the closely held details of the deal with President Donald Trump in a Sept. 3 meeting, according to senior administration officials. If Trump approves and a deal is struck, it could begin a withdrawal of some 5,400 U.S. troops, roughly a third of the present force, from five bases within 135 days.
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WNU Editor: If this assessment is true, this U.S. - Taliban peace deal is dead even before it is implemented ....
.... “No one speaks with certainty. None,” said an Afghan official taking part in briefings on the deal with Khalilzad. “It is all based on hope. There is no trust. There is no history of trust. There is no evidence of honesty and sincerity from the Taliban,” and intercepted communications “show that they think they have fooled the U.S. while the U.S. believes that should the Taliban cheat, they will pay a hefty price.”
4 comments:
Pompeo usually has sort of a jovial, good natured smile on his face.
Not in that pic.
Good natured smile? Are you sarcastic? Look at the videos with his wife in the background...tons of them in hearings.. She doesn't look like she's having a lot of fun with him around. Psychopathic bully is more what comes to mind when I see him.
Pompeo's wife if she is in a hearing is there to support him, but since her original career was not politics, it probably bores here. Especially so when you throw in the Democrat circus shit politics. There is a reason why some talk show hosts (not any that you have heard) refer to to Jerry Nadler as Captain Nads.
Nadler, I mean Nads, is a joke and in hearing he chairs is a bad joke and excruciating except for any comic relief it can provide.
If Pompeo is a long term player and is rebuffing and out flanking Captain Nads with Nads being unaware of it, Pompeo is probably having fun.
A 100 years from now, who will be more infamous, Captain Nads or Captain Underpants?
Anon: You could add this to what you say about Nads
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