Posted on 10/09/2021 8:56:30 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
The Taliban said on Saturday they will not work with the U.S. to contain extremism in Afghanistan.
Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told The Associated Press the group will independently deal with extremist groups such as the Islamic State.
“We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen said, using an Arabic acronym for the group.
The position comes ahead of talks between senior Taliban officials and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar.
These are the first direct talks the two groups will have since the U.S. evacuated Afghanistan in August, with the U.S. saying the talks are not a sign the Taliban will be recognized by the U.S, according to the AP.
Terrorism has already become an issue for the Taliban, as the group known as Islamic State Khorasan recently claimed a suicide bomber attack on a mosque that killed more than 40 people.
The meetings in Qatar will take place on Saturday and Sunday, and the officials are expected to discuss terrorism and evacuations of more Americans and Afghan allies.
Two senior administration officials told Reuters that Tom West, deputy special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation with the State Department, and Sarah Charles, assistant to the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, are two of the individuals expected to be at the meetings.
Concocting such fantasies goes hand in glove with pandering to lunatic base of the Democrat party. This is no different than Merrick Garland accusing school board critics of being "domestic terrorists".
But, but, Bye-Done assured me that the Taliban were reasonable men who would help us! All those Americans killed by the Taliban in the past, well, that was just a misunderstanding. C’mon, man. /s
Routs have consequences...
Umm, expecting the Taliban to reign in any sort of extremism is like expecting a heroin addict help you curb meth.
Butt, butt, butt........
What’s the matter? Did someone forget to say ‘Pretty Please’?
What a shock!
Say it ain’t so, Joe!?
Dumb asses to believe or even hope to believe the taliban.
As long as the extremism and violence all happens inside Afghanistan, who cares? If Joe and company want to start that occupation again, they can start by sending the Cheneys to wage the war. After, of course, they take special sniper-bullet-dodging courses from Hillary.
You think they would have worked with a Trump White House?
They have been in the "Revenge" mode since the 6th century. Old news.
Now hang on - The Most Popular President In History told us that these guys were businesslike and reasonable. Maybe we should just send them more money.
ISIS is already attacking the Taliban.
What could possibly have gone wrong ...
Shocking!
Who could have possibly imagined that this would happen?
Snicker...
Wait, you mean this isn’t from the Babylon Bee?
“Let’s Go Brandon!”
Maybe if Joe says “pretty please,” they’ll come around.
Did the US government really ask the Taliban to help “contain extremism”? Clown world.
Joe told the Taliban guys
“We handled our border crisis and it’s a thing of the past with a pathway to citizenship, we stopped the temporary inflation from a few months ago, we handled the peaceful and measured exit of people who wanted to leave Afghanistan as if it were just a busy holiday weekend at one of our airports and we convinced people to volunteer for vaccinations so now Covid is a thing of the past in the US. So work with us now in your country.”
Taliban: “Uh, no thanks, pal. We’ll go it alone.”
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