The Taliban in Afghanistan has agreed to a temporary ceasefire to allow the two sides to reach a peace agreement.
We have been in Afghanistan for 18 years with an end nowhere in sight.
President Trump wants us to pull all of our troops out of the country because our boys are getting killed and we can make no headway against the Taliban who hide out in the mountains to avoid being attacked.
President Trump met with officials from the Taliban on his recent surprise trip to Afghanistan.
Trump told the troops that the Taliban wanted a peace deal badly.
I’m sure President Trump will be pleased too, as it will allow him to bring the troops home.
When he was running for president he said he would not involve the country in an unnecessary wars overseas.
President Trump has already pulled most of the troops out of Syria.
Now, there’s a good chance he can pull all of the troops out of Afghanistan. We have already shed enough blood in a county we can’t win, only tread water.
If a peace agreement can be reached during the 10-day window, it would allow Washington to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there, America’s longest. The U.S. wants any deal to include a promise from the Taliban that Afghanistan would not be used as a base by terrorist groups. The U.S. currently has an estimated 12,000 troops in Afghanistan.
But in the year that the U.S. and the Taliban have been working to hammer out an agreement, direct negotiations with Afghans on both sides of the conflict have emerged as a key issue.
If a U.S.-Taliban peace deal is signed, negotiations between opposing sides in Afghanistan are expected to be held within to weeks to determine what the country will look like after the U.S. leaves and how big a role the Taliban will have, according to the AP.
