Peace with the Taliban
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🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The United States wants a peace deal with the Taliban. |
| 0:19.8 | What's the deal? |
| 0:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.8 | So the US and the Taliban have tentatively agreed to the framework for a peace deal, which |
| 0:27.2 | is a really big deal and it could potentially lead to the end of US involvement in this |
| 0:34.4 | almost two-decade long war. |
| 0:36.1 | So this news field sort of abrupt out of the blue, but I'm guessing it's probably |
| 0:39.5 | less out of the blue than we think it is. |
| 0:41.8 | How do we get here? |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, I mean, it's a bit surprising, but we have this special envoy who's basically |
| 0:46.9 | entire job is to go and work on this, right? |
| 0:49.5 | Okay. |
| 0:50.5 | And work these negotiations. |
| 0:51.5 | His name's Zalma Khalilzad. |
| 0:54.0 | He has been holding talks basically since this past July in Doha in Qatar. |
| 0:58.9 | It's like this kind of neutral third party where we tend to meet with the Taliban. |
| 1:02.6 | They have offices there. |
| 1:04.2 | Huh. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.2 | Previous talks have broken down, including one time when they flew a Taliban flag there |
| 1:11.6 | and the leader of Afghanistan saw that and got really pissed off and ended talks. |
| 1:15.9 | A lot of Americans probably think of the Taliban as like this, you know, super crazy militant |
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