With the US decision to withdraw its troops, new and more complex issues are looming in Afghanistan. An article looking at these questions.
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The Taliban is ready for talks, but no one is eager to hear their views. The war between the United States and the Taliban has been raging for the past 18 years, costing the Afghan army nearly рез 1 trillion. Yet they were unable to win the war. He gave up the idea of bending the organization to the force of the army. Both sides are now facing each other in a state of 'nothing can do'. They are ready to discuss with each other on the condition that the US should leave and never return.
Handling international relations is a complex task, and in Afghanistan, the process is further complicated by local political turmoil, increasing interference from neighboring countries, and the inability of the United States to learn from the mistakes of history. One thing we need to learn from the US history of Afghan occupation is that if the US diverts its attention from Afghanistan, there will be more terrorism.
This was the situation when the Soviet Union was defeated, the United States withdrew its attention from Afghanistan, believing its victory in the war with the communists was certain, and left the trained and armed Mujahideen there.
Even after returning to Afghanistan in 2001, the United States continued to engage in Iraq for the same reason that it helped the military eliminate the mujahideen a decade ago, and continued to help Pakistan financially to fight the Taliban.
As US attention remained focused on Iraq, Pakistan helped the Taliban regroup and continued to carry out attacks throughout Afghanistan. It was too late for the US to realize that the Taliban had reactivated, and by then the violence had escalated across the country. The decision of US President Barack Obama to reduce and withdraw US troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2011 was wrong.
This allowed the Taliban and their Pakistani allies to wait until the right opportunity. This is where history repeats itself and time is cyclic in this part of the world. President Trump is frustrated with foreign policy and has decided to withdraw US troops. They are also less likely to be sent back.
While discussions and political commentary on how the peace talks will be conducted "under the leadership of Afghanistan and under the jurisdiction of Afghanistan" are underway, the United States is failing to find a convincing solution.
The Taliban has refused to negotiate with the Ashraf Ghani government. He believes that the Kabul government is a puppet of the United States and therefore ineligible to discuss it.
Discussions are underway in Moscow between several government officials, several senior politicians, including former President Hamid Karzai, and the Taliban, but no representative of the current Guinean administration is present for the talks. The meeting will discuss the issue of resolutions decided at an earlier meeting in Qatar. In it, the Afghan and Moscow delegations are rethinking the failure of the United States and the need to involve the current government in the talks.
Instead of doing what they say, the main goal is to advance everyone's own personal political interests (about the Afghan politicians who are present) and to push their own political policy (about the other neighboring nations that are present). "Negotiations under Afghan leadership and Afghan authority" means that the current government (excluding its allies) must be included in the meeting, so this government deserves to be discussed, and the Afghan government has the right to have its say, including the Taliban.
Another issue that has been left out of the negotiations is the issue of Afghan women.
During the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, Afghan women were barred from attending school, attending university, and working. Many have even been beaten en masse. Restrictions were also imposed on where they should go and where they should not go. Nowhere does the Taliban say that you have changed your feminist views or that you have changed your mind.
On the contrary, the statement made by this organization in Moscow reflects their reactionary thinking. She believes that women's rights are the spread of Western culture and non-Muslim and non-Afghan ideas.
In order to end the violent conflict and to oppose violent extremism, decades of study and literature have focused on women's participation in the negotiation process and their inclusion in the next peace process.
To the extent that gender equality is established in the society, the edge of the struggle in the society will be blunted. There are many streams that prove that the elimination of conflict and the involvement of women in decision making will bring stability to the society. Despite this, the delegation of government officials visiting Moscow includes only three women.
Although this is the beginning of a discussion and will continue for many months or years until a final agreement is reached, it does not make sense to ignore it as an immediate or preliminary understanding of these early events. The direction that the US and Afghan officials set in the talks will also affect the country's further negotiations.
Last month, the US media praised the drafting of a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on the condition that the Taliban would not carry out terrorist acts in Afghanistan or use Afghan territory for terrorist acts.
The Taliban is ready to accept any condition for the US to leave the country and not allow other groups to use its territory for attacks. Taliban leaders have repeatedly said that they made a mistake by sheltering al-Qaeda after 9/11. Today, the Taliban are facing a direct challenge from the Islamic State of Khorasan, and yet the United States is adamant that the Taliban should promise not to indulge in terrorist acts.
The Taliban is ready to negotiate with the United States, and the United States should take advantage of this opportunity to set its priorities and the direction of the talks. It should not compromise on the issue of women's rights, while ensuring that their international status does not insist on the influence of Islamic law or Afghan culture.
It is important to have a definite outline of the nature of the Afghan army and to discuss the establishment of a control mechanism. There should also be a discussion on who will have control over national wealth and the drug trade. Similarly, the resettlement of thousands of internally displaced persons and the question of the country's oppressed minorities and, most importantly, the decision by the Taliban, which mechanism will be responsible for fulfilling that promise, needs to be decided. It is easy to declare that foreign countries will not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs, but it requires real diplomatic skills, political courage, (and rational thinking), so that the true message can reach Pakistan. Failing that, the US government decided to bring stability to the country at a cost, It would mean that they were defeated badly. The Taliban is now ready for talks and needs to be shown what their place is in the minds of the Afghan people
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