The 2020 election sees US President Donald Trump make a re-election bid while Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate and former vice president, challenges him in the White House race. This year has been tumultuous, with issues of racism, police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on economy, and ties with China dominating US politics. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has also catapulted the justice system into the limelight.
US-Taliban “Peace” is a farce.
There can be no “peace” with Islam. Only surrender as per the terms of Quran and Hadith. The Taliban, by definition are students and practitioners of Quran and Hadith. The Jihadis that ALL Moslems are exhorted to be.
The Taliban was created by the US allies, Sunni Arabs, in petro dollar funded Mosques and Madrassa all over the World.
The US and Pakistan created Al Qaeda (the base) to train the Taliban in Asymmetric war to throw the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. Which they did.
But Taliban, by definition are Sunni Students of the Quran and Hadiths (Talib is the singular) and the Quran exhorts all Moslems to establish the Sharia on the rubble of all civilization (i.e. Jihad bil Saif). Hence Taliban from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan brought down the World Trade Towers in New York on “9/11”.
So, though Bush, Blair, Cheney and Rumsfeld were forced by Public Opinion to wage war on Afghanistan, they allowed what they thought were their allies, the Taliban (Osama Bin Laden et al) , to escape through the Tora Bora caves to Pakistan where they re grouped.
Pakistan continued to nurture them as it not only still covets Afghanistan as “strategic depth” but subscribes fully to Jihad bil Saif in general and Ghazwa e Hind in particular which it has adopted as its own particular purpose of existence.
The US (CIA) continues to maintain covert relations with the Taliban because it sees them as an excellent tool or “boots on the ground” to carry out “regime changes” which has become the leit motif of US foreign policy which was, as a hired gun of Sunni Arabs and the war profiteering Military-Industrial Complex, reflected in Afghanistan, Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia, Monte Negro, Kosovo, Serbia etc), Iraq, Libya, Arab Spring, Syria, Yemen and now gathering force against Iran.
The Taliban, meanwhile, broke up into hundreds of Jihadi regiments such as Harqat ul Mujahideen, Boko Haram, Al Shebab, Jaish e Mohamad, Students Islamic Movement of India, etc etc all trained by the heirs, successors and assigns of the US-Pakistan made Al Qaeda.
A significant mutation of the Taliban took place when a faction repudiated one of the three oaths of the Taliban, the one of loyalty to the guardians of Muqqa and Madhina, the Tent of Saud and formed into the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (the Daesh. ISIS to you and me, ISIL to Obama, and Islam to the Mulla or Erdogan). They broke free of the Tent of Saud and threatened to destroy the Tent of Saud as apostates, and the Royal Sunni Arab control over this regiment of Taliban was lost to the Tents of Saud, Nahyan, Jabah, Sabah and others and reclaimed by the Quran and the Hadiths. i.e. the 4th Calipha Uthman’s version of the Quran and the Hadiths with which he replaced the original Quran and Hadiths which he cremated in order to have a religion more suited to the baser instincts of Man and motivate them to wage Jihad through rape, murder, genocide, slavery and all sorts of crimes against humanity, nature and Brahma.
Obama’s CIA harnessed the Daesh as their boots on the ground against Bashar Al Assad of Syria with money, weapons and other support that was funneled to them covertly. At the same time, as their doings were found deeply offensive to most non de humanized human beings, the US unleashed the Kurds and the Pentagon against Daesh overtly but with inadequate resources and crippling rules of engagement so that the Pentagon would not succeed in destroying the CIA’s “boots on the ground”. Right now, the US has abandoned the Kurds to the tender mercies of Turkish Sultan Erdogan in a redux of Truman’s 1947.
This was an essential reflection of what had taken place (the strategy) in Iraq. After allowing the Taliban to escape to Pakistan, the US began a war with Iraq. This took away forces from Afghanistan dooming the Afghan campaign to failure. It sank three trillion US dollars of US cash and erected five thousand new head stones at Arlington, bankrupted the Veterans Administration (health services) by swamping them with the wounded and traumatized, and the US economy never recovered. Similarly, Blair left Britain so debilitated that Britain still cannot afford adequate health, education and law enforcement services! However, the Bush Bandits, Bush (the son) Dick Cheney, the Neo-Cons and their camp followers made a fortune. Billions of dollars in cash of impounded Iraq oil money was flown in to Iraq for “reconstruction” by Dick Cheney’s boys (Black water, Eric Prince etc) which simply vanished without any kind of account. Apart from the profits for the Military Industrial Complex and the benefit to the Sunni Arabs of getting rid of Sadam Hussein whose Iraq used to have the World’s best (and free) education and health systems, discos, bars, unveiled women, and thriving communities of Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, “Hindoos” (such as Yazidi) and others before the US and NATO commenced their “sanctions”, “no fly zones” and, finally, on the back of Colin Powell’s “smoking gun” WMD to erase Hans Blix (UN Weapons Inspector) objections. Blix himself was quickly replaced with Al Baradei, a Sunni Arab more compliant with the US-NATO-Sunni Axis agenda in Iraq. And Iraq was bombarded with Depleted Uranium ammunition, cluster bombs and so on to massacre millions of Iraqis, mainly the vulnerable women and children.
Now, to Afghanistan. The under resourced Pentagon was set up for failure by the US against the CIA’s Pakistan, Taliban and Islamic State. Exactly as happened in Iraq, Syria and the first time around in Afghanistan
The Afghan “talks”, therefore, are a farce. An eyewash. A fig leaf that will fool the great unwashed masses whose eyeballs are glued to the US-NATO-Sunni Axis controlled Mass Media and posture as if the US is doing something honourable instead of “cutting and running” as there are no further profits to be made out of this war by the Military Industrial Complex, and the Sunni Arab component of the US-NATO-Sunni Axis and Pakistan would have completely achieved their objective when the US does, finally and inevitably, “cut and run” from Afghanistan.
The US is a great “Cutter and Runner”. Remember Vietnam? It loses all wars except those that are remade in Hollywood starring Anna Shivajinagar or Sylvester Stallone to inspire new generations, through such celluloid tales of derring-do and US “victories”, to join the US Armed Forces and die for Uncle Sam so that the Military Industrial Complex and the Sunni Petro Dollar Arabs may achieve their objectives. The Mullas of course, are busy producing Taliban, inspired by the Quran and the Hadith, to produce the obverse of this coin.
It is very important to neutralise Pakistan in Afghan affairs. Only then peace come.
Though it may look like Pakistan is at drivers seat, it is just a facilitator and it’s job is done.
During intra Afghan talks afghan Taliban will oust Pakistan Taliban from its rank as it genuinely believes in peace this time. A country exporting terror and economy in shambles cannot dictate the future and afghan Taliban knows it.
Till they root out Pakistan Taliban lasting peace in Afghanistan is a pipe dream.
Territory wise afghan Taliban may have upper hand but the majority populace is under the current afghan government.
This will play key factor in intra afghan talks.
Lastly India which has been missing will be key player in arriving a power sharing agreement during intra afghan talks.