Has the US killed the peace process?

Daily Times
May 12, 2021
Afghanistan’s sputtering peace process effectively stalled following President Biden’s announcement of a delayed timetable for US troop withdrawal from the country. And while he failed to acknowledge that this revision violated the US-Taliban Doha agreement — the Taliban, nevertheless, responded by announcing a boycott of all peace talks. Indeed, the Istanbul process scheduled for April 24 was postponed due to the Taliban no-show. Instead of injecting pep and vigour into the process — the US unconditional exit threatens to take the country back to square one, to some twenty years ago.
There remain three main parties to the Afghan peace process: the US, the Taliban, and the Afghan government. Yet prior to September 12, 2020, when the inaugural session of the intra-Afghan talks was held in Doha, Kabul was shockingly sidelined from the peace process. That the US entered into bilateral negotiations with the Taliban simply reinforced the group’s position Former president, Hamid Karzai, did his utmost to convince the Taliban to rethink things, yet to no avail. The Taliban are, of course, Afghans and are familiar with their country’s politics. It therefore appeared illogical for them to talk to Kabul when Washington wasn’t ready to. After all, any bilateral deal with the government would have no worth, as the US made blatantly clear.

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