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To: elpadre

“The key issues are quite clear:

1. Pakistan wants a power-sharing deal and is doing what it can in Doha, along the extended troika, to reach it.

2. A Taliban takeover will lead to a new influx of refugees and may encourage jihadis of the al-Qaeda, TTP and ISIS-Khorasan kind to destabilize Pakistan.

3. It was the US that legitimized the Taliban by striking an agreement with them during the Donald Trump administration.

4. And because of the messy withdrawal, the Americans reduced their leverage – and Pakistan’s – over the Taliban.

The problem is Islamabad simply does not manage to get these messages across.”


4 posted on 08/13/2021 4:00:32 PM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: elpadre

We were negotiating with the Taliban long before Trump.


8 posted on 08/13/2021 4:06:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: elpadre

Good news. (Or bad, it depends).
According to the racial scientists, Afghans (as well as Persians) are considered WHITE, while Pakistanis are not. (funny, the Pashtuns live on both sides of the border and are close relegated, but the ones living in Afghanistan are privileged, while the family few yard away in Pakistan are underprivileged.)
So we will have an influx of privileged White refugees. I am wondering, how the Woke’s will take them.


14 posted on 08/13/2021 4:30:42 PM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: elpadre

I will always remember my friend, my Professor and my mentor, Warren Weinstein…


15 posted on 08/13/2021 4:32:29 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew is the Prince no more...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: elpadre

Sorry, billy Clinton made the legitimate well before President Trump was around


16 posted on 08/13/2021 4:41:11 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: elpadre

Sorry, billy Clinton made the legitimate well before President Trump was around


17 posted on 08/13/2021 4:41:12 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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