Posted on 03/23/2020 12:25:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived Monday in Kabul on an urgent visit to try to move forward a U.S. peace deal signed last month with the Taliban, a trip that comes despite the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when world leaders and statesmen are curtailing official travel.
Since the signing of the deal, the peace process has stalled amid political turmoil in Afghanistan, with the country’s leaders squabbling over who was elected president.
President Ashraf Ghani and his main rival in last September’s presidential polls, Abdullah Abdullah, have both declared themselves the country’s president in dueling inauguration ceremonies earlier this month.
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Bring our troops home and KTA on the way out
We need to destroy the poppies, and return only if they start growing back.
Why is this so complicated?
Declare victory, leave and give the damned neocons who said it would be a “cakewalk” the six trillion dollar bill for that and Iraq,
Like Trump, I think Pompeo never sleeps!
What a waste...
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