These people need to go: Mark Garneau implies the Trudeau gov't will recognize the Taliban government.
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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