These people need to go: Mark Garneau implies the Trudeau gov't will recognize the Taliban government.
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God Garneau is such a cuck. I regret voting for him for party leader back in the day.
They gained recognition when the US signed a peace deal with them a year ago.
I'm pretty sure there was nothing in that peace deal stipulating that the Taliban would gain recognition as the legitimate gov't of Afghanistan should they take power by force. I mean that would kind negate the whole point of a peace deal.
If they are not going to be the next government of Afghanistan, why does the US need a peace deal with them (a peace deal that included things like releasing 5,000 Taliban fighters and lifting the UN sanctions against the Taliban)? Did Trump really think that the Taliban would just sit back in their caves in rural Afghanistan even after every US soldier left the country?
A "peace deal" is usually forfeited by the failure of one side or the other to honour the "peace" part.
And the deal was never to supplant the Afghan government with the Taliban. It was just to end the fighting between the Taliban and the coalition.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-taliban-peace-deal-agreement-afghanistan-war
That wasn't the deal. The deal was that the Taliban and the US backed goernment will start "negotiations". And guess what. The Taliban won these "negotiations".
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/02.29.20-US-Afghanistan-Joint-Declaration.pdf
I'm still not following how you think a massive Taliban offensive is pursuant to the "peace deal".
Edit: Let me put it this way. If you and I make a deal for me to sell you my car for $5000, and you just jump in and peel out without giving me the money, that's not you "winning the negotiations". You're just stealing my car. That's not the deal.
A "mostly peaceful deal"
What offensive? Half the Afghan army switched immediately sides and the other half ran away. The Taliban captured Kabul without firing a single shot. The moment the US pulled out, the US backed Afghan government stopped existing.
I mean, if you think that the Taliban broke the peace deal, are you of the opinion that the US should go back? Should Biden stop the final withdrawal and send in 200,000 troops to make sure that the Taliban keep their word of negotiations?
Once again, the peace deal did not appoint the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-taliban-peace-deal-agreement-afghanistan-war