Withdrawing won’t end the war
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:33.0 | It's today explained I'm Halima Shah sitting in for Sean Ramis firm today. |
| 0:47.0 | Almost a quarter of Americans only know a world in which the US was at war in Afghanistan. |
| 0:53.0 | Almost half of Afghans were born into that war. |
| 0:58.0 | And just days ago President Trump announced that after nearly two decades of waging that war, |
| 1:04.0 | Americans are exiting Afghanistan and only leaving 2500 troops behind. |
| 1:11.0 | Andrew Quilty is a journalist in Kabul and he's been following Trump's efforts to end America's forever war. |
| 1:19.0 | Trump's attempts to end the war I suppose realistically began before he came to office. |
| 1:26.0 | This destructive cycle of intervention in chaos must finally folks come to an end. |
| 1:34.0 | He campaigned on ending as he calls him the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and in Syria at the time. |
| 1:41.0 | We're a humanitarian nation but the legacy of the Obama Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion and disarray a mess. |
| 1:55.0 | But his attempts started to come into effect in 2018 when he sent a peace envoy to Doha, Qatar to start negotiating with the Taliban. |
| 2:05.0 | The Taliban, the Afghan government and the US envoy held three days of talks in Qatar. |
| 2:11.0 | The talks were aimed at renewing the peace process in Afghanistan and eventually winding down America's longest war. |
| 2:17.0 | This was something that the US had refused to do to acknowledge the Taliban regime and to negotiate a peace with them for as we know nearly 20 years now. |
| 2:28.0 | After 18 months of talks and nearly two decades of war, the US and the Afghan Taliban have just signed a longer way to deal, aimed at paving the way to peace and the departure of foreign troops. |
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