- publish: 11 March 2019
- time: 5:21 pm
- category: Politics
- No: 7413
The 14th day of the fifth round of Doha talks between the USA and the Taliban ended without any result
Sunday was the fourteenth day of the fifth round of Doha talks between the USA and the Taliban group which ended without any result.
Qatar talks will probably have several rounds as well.
Once, the US state
department’s special representative on the Afghan peace process Zalmay
Khalilzad had said during an interview in Afghanistan that America will
probably discuss having a military base in Afghanistan.
The main claim of the Taliban group was and is “Jihad” against the country’s
“occupation” by American forces.
In addition, their main demand is also the unconditional withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Issues like the Islamic rule, social justice, withdrawal from the United Nations blacklist and the release of prisoners are subordinate demands that can be easily agreed upon.
The main things
America wants, are an honorable withdrawal, Taliban’s merger in the peace
process and becoming a part of the Afghan government, and the so-called
“international terrorism” cannot use Afghan territory against the US and its
allies.
Undoubtedly, America has not come to launch a global fight against some
incognito and nonbeing terrorists, bringing peace in the region and world.
America is a liberal-capitalist country and no calculation above national
interests is important for it. Although president Trump is a businessman who
did not see any profit in Afghanistan, the US political system limits the
president’s authorities, and cannot maneuver against foreign policy doctrine.
On the other hand, given the fact that
Trump wants US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, the talks must have already
ended and currently we would have witnessed the “green” army pullout in the
early 21st century from Afghanistan (green does not have special meaning, it is
just a language game with the Red Army).
But in a world which is moving towards multi-polarization, Russia wants to
slowly revive the Soviet power, China has been rising as a military-economic
power, and Iran as a regional power that has “checkmated” the US and its allies
in the Middle East which can also challenge America in Central Asia by its
increasing domestic potentials, it is unreasonable and naïve to think that the
United States pulls out from a “buffer” country of the east and west.
According to the writer, US-Taliban talks in Qatar only focus on one issue, guaranteeing the US troops presence in Afghanistan; whether it is a liberal system or an “Islamic Emirate”.