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Monday, September 09, 2019

Jihad Is Forever : 'Good Faith' Is Contrived : Such Sanctimony! Inshallah...

"We held fruitful and productive negotiations with the U.S. negotiation team, and an agreement was finalized. The U.S. negotiating team was satisfied about the progress made so far until yesterday, and we ended the talks in a good atmosphere. Both sides were prepared for announcing the agreement and for signing it."
"An intra-Afghan meeting and dialogue would have been scheduled for Sept. 23 after the announcement of the signing of the deal."
"Regional and international countries and organizations had also shown their support for this process.
Now that U.S. President Trump has announced the suspension of negotiations with the Islamic Emirate, this would not harm anyone else but the Americans themselves. This will further affect their credibility and expose their anti-peace stance to the world in a more clear way. Losses to lives and assets will increase, and America’s activities when it comes to political interactions will be compromised [by this decision]."
"By continuing the dialogue, the Islamic Emirate has proved to the world that war has been imposed on us by others, and if the path of dialogue and understanding is to be given precedence over war, we are ultimately committed."
"Such a reaction toward a single attack just before the signing of an agreement displays lack of patience and experience. This happens while attacks by the United States and its Afghan allies have martyred hundreds of Afghans and destroyed their assets."
"Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad extended an invitation to us to visit the United States and President Trump at the end of August, and we had to put it off until signing of the agreement in Doha."
"The Islamic Emirate has a solid and unwavering policy. We called for dialogue 20 years ago and maintain the same stance today, and we believe the United States shall return to this position as well.
Our previous 18-year resistance should have proved to the United States that we would accept nothing but a complete end to the foreign occupation of our country and that Afghans are given a chance to live by their own choice. We will continue our jihad for this great cause and maintain our strong belief in ultimate victory, God willing."
Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman

Smoke rises from the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 3. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images.

What injury the intransigent American betrayers of peace and good fellowship have bestowed on Afghanistan with U.S. President Trump's final realization that bargaining 'in good faith' with an intractable jihad-dedicated entity like the Taliban is a fool's errand. The fool that was dispatched by the Trump administration, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, must certainly know the disposition of Islamist fundamentalists and seemed content to lead the U.S. administration down the garden path of agreement to leave that benighted country.

That, in a nutshell, was what the Taliban were bargaining for. The final and complete departure of U.S. troops as well as all NATO troops supporting the U.S. mission in Afghanistan for too many long years. Islamist fundamentalism is a deep-rooted cancer whose menace and hostility to the West and determination to control and maintain the bondage of sharia law in Afghanistan and anywhere else it can put its evil roots down admits to a hudna, the appearance of a truce. One that can be abandoned at the right time. And for the Taliban the right time is when the country's defences are down.

The Taliban said the cancellation of peace talks with the US would result in 'human losses'. The militant group set off a car bomb in Kabul that killed a US soldier and 11 others on ThursdayCredit: EPA

When it can once again glory in its totalitarian rule of the country, and invite al-Qaeda to resume its rightful place re-establishing a headquarters from which it can continue to launch attacks in the West. Islamic State as well has its secured positions in the country, though it is only the Taliban that has squeezed the life out of a third of Afghanistan, awaiting the time when it can resume holding the entire country once again in its vicious thrall.

The astonishing aspect of negotiations toward a 'peace agreement' with the Taliban is not just that it has refused to include the Government of Afghanistan in the bilateral talks with the U.S. but that the U.S. remained in the talks despite the fact that the Taliban simply continued its deadly bombing campaigns in the country, including the capital; destroying lives, property, security and hope for the future while negotiating a 'peace agreement'. That it was only its last bombing that finally penetrated the consciousness of Donald Trump is hard to fathom.

Taliban fighters and supporters celebrating an earlier ceasefire amid tense peace talks Credit: Getty - Contributor

But it is that carnage that took another U.S. military life among those of Afghans that moved the U.S. president to declare that he has realized the talks were utterly pointless. It is understandable that the administration would like to extricate itself from this prolonged, miserable war led by theocratic imbeciles for whom death deliverance is a sacred duty to be fulfilled. Eighteen years is a long time for any country to be installed in another for the purpose of destroying a morbid threat to security.

But while an army can be fought and conquered, a virulent ideology of conquest and death simply lives on led by a religion whose sacred scripts urge a never-ending jihad pursued to the end of time. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, for whom the talks between the U.S. and the Taliban were clearly useless, would likely prefer the 18,000 U.S. soldiers to remain, along with their NATO counterparts until such time as the Taliban is defeated. Not any time soon.