The Taliban just announced the cancellation of its planned peace talks
with the US in Qatar. Before this happened, America rightly felt like it
was losing control over the incipient
peace process in Afghanistan after Russia adopted the long-standing
Pakistani position a few years ago that the only realistic solution to
the war is to talk with the Taliban as a legitimate political party to
the conflict, following which the group was hosted in the Russian
capital late last year during a dramatic event that symbolically
heralded a new chapter in this South Asian saga. [ 470 more words ]
https://orientalreview.org/…/whos-to-blame-for-the-collaps…/
