
Nothing to break the fall: Afghanistan
The Intelligence from The Economist
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What's Your View on the Byden Administration?
There is, i think, a clear disconnect between what the political leadership of the talaban is saying and what's being done. I would say america and other western countries are focused single mindedly on getting their citizens and diplomats out of afghanistan. And once that's over, western governments are going to have a very difficult choice - do they stick to the policy they had in the nineties, which has refused to recognize the taliban government? Or do they follow the line that's probably going to be taken by china and others, which is to recognize theTaliban?
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