US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has justified the US deal with the Taliban, according to him the agreement was a right step. He said that the longest battle in American history, this fight needed to end. That is why the US agreement with the Taliban was correct.
In addition, Khalilzad said that the situation worsened when President Ghani fled Afghanistan.Speaking to CBS News, Khalilzad said that the US military tried several times to consolidate its position on the battlefield, but was unsuccessful.
The Taliban made the deal because we were not winning the war. Time was not on our side, so it was better to make a deal,” Khalilzad was quoted as saying by Tolo News.
Khalilzad blamed Ashraf Ghani for the breakdown in security in Afghanistan and said his escape caused chaos in the Afghan capital. Khalilzad said that the US had already decided that he would withdraw his army by this time limit, he was not aware of the real situation in Afghanistan.
Despite other challenges and previous failures, Khalilzad believes that the US counter-terrorism mission in the country was successful because “the terrorist threat from Afghanistan is no longer what it used to be” and that al-Qaeda is “devastated”. Is.
Apart from this, Khalilzad admitted that even after 20 years of US military presence in the country, Afghanistan could not become a democracy. On the issue of building a democratic Afghanistan, says Khalilzad, I think the US did not succeed. The struggle goes on. The Taliban are the reality of Afghanistan. We didn’t defeat them.”
He said the Taliban had a different approach to the country, but expected more liberal views to prevail soon.
