ISLAMABAD – Afghan Taliban may take over entire country within 6 months ofUS troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, fears former US Navy Commander inKabul Admiral Bill McRaven.
Retired Adm. Bill McRavenlink,now a national security professor at the University of Texas in Austin,likened negotiating with the warlords who control much of Afghanistan’ssquare mileage to sitting down with ISISlink,in a discussion Wednesday at the New America Special Operations ForcesPolicy ForumlinkinWashington, Business Insider has reported.
“And maybe that’s not a good comparison,” he said. “But I do believe thatif we negotiate some sort of settlement with the Taliban, and thatsettlement involves the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan, that,you know, it won’t be six months or a year before all of the blood andtreasure we have put into Afghanistan will have been reversed because theTaliban will come back in and do what the Taliban dolink.”
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Multiple international news outlets reported in late August and earlySeptember that the Taliban and US diplomats had reached an interim peaceagreement after nine rounds of peace talks in Qatar.
