U.S. policy needs to focus on supporting the achievement of a durable political settlement to the Afghan conflict, not timelines.
Thursday, February 4, 2021 / By: Adam Gallagher
The Biden administration should commit to the Afghan peace process but seek an extension of the May troop withdrawal deadline stipulated in the February 2020 U.S.-Taliban deal, said the bipartisan Afghanistan Study Group. “If we walk away, we’ll leave behind chaos, if not civil war,” said General Joseph Dunford, a co-chair of the commission and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a report released on Wednesday, the Study Group said, “the United States must elevate the importance of the conditions allowing the withdrawal of U.S. troops.”
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