“US Did Not Defeat Taliban”, Ex Afghanistan Envoy Recounts “Struggle”

Washington :The United States was losing the war to the Taliban so it chose accommodations as an volition, said the former US special representative for Afghanistan conciliation Zalmay Khalilzad Talking to CBS News, Khalilzad said the US military tried numerous times to strengthen its position on the battlefield, but it failed.

“The concession was a result of– grounded on the judgment that we were not winning the war and thus time wasn’t on our side and better to make a deal sooner than latterly,”Tolo News quoted Khalilzad said Khalilzad criticized the also- chairman Ashraf Ghani for the decomposition of Afghanistan’s security sector, saying his escape started the chaos in the Afghan capital.

He said that Washington chose the calender- grounded approach in its opinions on the pullout of colors from Afghanistan and didn’t take into account the real situation in the country Despite remaining challenges and once failures, Khalilzad believes that the US counterterrorism charge in the country succeeded as”the terrorist trouble from Afghanistan isn’t what it used to be”and al-Qaeda has been” devastated.”

At the same time, theex-envoy admitted that in the 20 times of American military presence in Afghanistan, the country didn’t come a republic On the issue of erecting a popular Afghanistan, I suppose that the US didn’t succeed. The struggle goes on. The Talibs are a reality of Afghanistan. We didn’t master them,”he said, noting that the Taliban have a different vision for the country, but there are hopes the more moderate views will prevail since the movement is fractured.

On October 18, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken blazoned that Khalilzad stepped down as a special Afghanistan envoy Khalilzad said that he made the decision to abdicate at a time when Washington is beginning a new phase of policy toward Kabul following the pullout from Afghanistan in August