Sat Oct 9, 2021, 01:36 PM

US delegation meets with Taliban representatives in Doha

Source: CNN

A US delegation was set to meet with "senior Taliban representatives from Kabul" in Doha, Qatar, this weekend, a State Department official said ahead of the meeting -- the first such gathering since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August.

"This meeting is a continuation of the pragmatic engagements with the Taliban on issues of US vital national interest," the official told CNN.

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters on Saturday, "We had a detailed discussion with the American delegation in Doha, and this discussion with continue all day today and into tomorrow as well."

"During this meeting, discussions were made about the humanitarian assistance as well and this discussion will continue," Mujahid said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/us-taliban-doha-meetings/index.html

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US delegation meets with Taliban representatives in Doha (Original post)	Steelrolled	Oct 2021	OP
the US pays coming and going.	maxsolomon	Oct 2021	#1
I think that Vietnam was secretly promised aid	Steelrolled	Oct 2021	#4
Pakistan has no money and are dependent on China	JI7	Oct 2021	#5
I don't actually expect aid from Pakistan. They are a basketcase of a country.	maxsolomon	Oct 2021	#6
C'mon, West, be humanitarian, right? Help us live the style to which we've become accustomed,	ancianita	Oct 2021	#2
Fascists like The Taliban just love to negotiate but they always negotiate in	abqtommy	Oct 2021	#3

Response to Steelrolled (Original post)

Sat Oct 9, 2021, 02:33 PM

maxsolomon (29,514 posts)

1. the US pays coming and going.

can't help thinking Pakistan should be carrying the bulk of the Humanitarian Assistance cost. they wanted this outcome.

i wonder if there will be any conditions other than "we promise to oppress less this time"?

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Sat Oct 9, 2021, 08:50 PM

Steelrolled (2,022 posts)

4. I think that Vietnam was secretly promised aid

during the peace negotiations, but I don't think they ever got it (or at least for a very long time).

Vietnam had many bad years, but seems to be be in much better shape now. Perhaps they should be a model for Afghanistan.

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Response to maxsolomon (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 9, 2021, 08:53 PM

JI7 (87,624 posts)

5. Pakistan has no money and are dependent on China

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Response to JI7 (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 10, 2021, 10:45 AM

maxsolomon (29,514 posts)

6. I don't actually expect aid from Pakistan. They are a basketcase of a country.

They harbored and abetted the Talibs to placate their Pashtuns and avoid an insurgency in the NW Territories.

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Sat Oct 9, 2021, 03:24 PM

ancianita (30,089 posts)

2. C'mon, West, be humanitarian, right? Help us live the style to which we've become accustomed,

cuz y'all know it's just a believers' reproduction race, right? All this beheading, keeping women down, governing and having a GDP all at the same time is just too hard. "

Wait, what? You want to buy precious metals?

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Sat Oct 9, 2021, 03:32 PM

abqtommy (14,118 posts)

3. Fascists like The Taliban just love to negotiate but they always negotiate in

bad faith. I'm sorry to see the U.S. even sitting down with them.

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