The New Yorker Magazine (№ 20th December 2021) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2021-12-19T13:00:00+00:00

strikes carried out in support of Af-

ghan forces, calling them a violation of

the Doha accord’s annex on managing

combat. Like aggressive corporate lit-

igators seeking to drown their oppo-

nents in paper, the guerrillas filed more

than sixteen hundred complaints to

Khalilzad’s team, and used them to jus-

tify their intensifying military campaign

against Kabul.

When Joe Biden ran for Senate in

1972, at the age of twenty-nine,

he campaigned on his opposition to the

Vietnam War. He did not claim that the

war was immoral; rather, he believed

that it was “merely stupid and a horren-

dous waste of time, money and lives

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based on a flawed premise,” as he later

wrote in his memoir. Biden has ap-

district capitals. They delivered a three-

ban prisoners. In early August, the loya proached the Afghan war with similar day ceasefire over Eid al-Fitr in late jirga approved the release of everyone skepticism. In 2009, as Vice-President, May that mostly held up well. Yet they on the Taliban’s list, including Hasan Biden met Karzai, the Afghan President continued to attack Afghan forces, cost-and the other prisoners on the “objec-

at the time, who urged him to work

ing hundreds of Afghan lives.

tion list.” (An Afghan intelligence of-

harder to end Pakistan’s support for the

Mark Milley, the chairman of the ficial said that, weeks after Hasan was Taliban. “Mr. President,” Biden replied, Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with Ghani released, someone from the F.B.I. asked according to Karzai and another Afghan in Kabul and assured him that the pull-if she could be recaptured, but she had present, “Pakistan is fifty times more out didn’t mean that the U.S. was giv-already fled to Iran.)

important to the United States than Af-

ing up on Afghanistan. “We have signed

On September 12th, at the Sharq ghanistan.” In 2015, Ghani and Abdul-up for a conditional drawdown,” he said, resort, intra-Afghan talks were for-lah joined Biden for breakfast in Wash-

using language that had been given to mally inaugurated, six months after the ington, where he told them that the him by Pompeo: U.S. troops would stay Doha accord had specified. The group Afghan war was “unwinnable.” Accord-until certain conditions had been met, of twenty-one delegates sent by Kabul ing to Mohib, Ghani’s national-security and one of those conditions was that had been preparing for months, like adviser, Afghan officials were left con-the Taliban and the Islamic Republic athletes training for a big season per-vinced that if Biden were ever President

engage in negotiations. And yet it was petually delayed, and a German foun-

“he will probably want to withdraw.”

obvious to everyone by now that Trump dation had delivered seminars on how After Biden was elected, in Novem-could overrule his generals at any time. to negotiate for peace. But, at the Sharq, ber, 2020, he named Jake Sullivan as na-the Kabul team found that the Taliban tional-security adviser and Antony On July 29th, Khalilzad and Miller, were exceedingly stubborn. It took more Blinken as Secretary of State. Both men the commander of U.S. and NATO than two months to resolve one agenda had years of experience working in gov-forces, met with Ghani at his residence, item.

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