WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that the US will only recognize a future government in Afghanistan if it upholds the basic rights of its people and keeps terrorists out of the country.
Asked to discuss media reports that China was able to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government, Secretary Blinken said: “A future Afghan government that upholds the essential rights of its people which doesn’t harbor terrorists may be a government we will work with and recognize.”
Conversely, he added, “a government that doesn’t uphold the essential rights of its people, including women and girls; that harbors terrorist groups that have designs on the US or allies and partners — certainly, that’s not getting to happen.”
The top American diplomat appeared on a variety of folks’ television channels on Sunday to discuss the developments in Afghanistan where Taliban insurgents have entered Kabul, forcing President Ashraf Ghani to hunt refuge in Tajikistan.
He warned that international assistance to a Taliban-led government in Kabul “will not be forthcoming, sanctions won’t be lifted and their ability to travel won’t happen” if they didn’t respect basic rights and didn’t stop harboring terrorists.
When the interviewer argued that his statement seemed like a no to recognition, Mr. Blinken said: “It’s obligatory the international community, including the US, to try to do everything we will using every tool that we’ve — economic, diplomatic, political — to make sure (those) rights are sustained.”
He also emphasized the necessity to make sure that “if the Taliban doesn’t do this … it clearly faces the penalties for not upholding those rights,” adding “We will do everything we will to form sure that’s the case.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper reminded Mr. Blinken that during a recent statement, US President Joe Biden had insisted that the Kabul government wouldn’t fall and asked him how the president could “get this so wrong.”
The secretary argued that the US had accomplished its goals in Afghanistan, by handling the parents who attacked us on 9/11, eliminating Osama bin Laden in 2011, and diminishing the threat from Al Qaeda, and now was the time to go away.
Quoting a former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, that the withdrawal of folks troops was “a handover to the Taliban” that left the Afghan people “hung… bent dry,” the journalist asked: “Does President Biden not bear the blame for this disastrous exit from Afghanistan?”
Mr. Blinken replied, “We have said right along, including the president, that the Taliban was at its greatest position of strength at any time since 2001 when it had been last responsible of [Afghanistan].
That is the Taliban that we inherited. And so, we saw that they’re considerably capable of happening the offensive and starting to take back the country.”
He acknowledged that the US spent billions of dollars, “building a contemporary military with sophisticated equipment, 300,000 forces strong, with an air force that the Taliban didn’t have. and therefore the fact of the matter is, we’ve seen that that force has been unable to defend the country.”
Secretary Blinken also rejected the suggestion that sending American troops to evacuate US Embassy staff and other Americans resembled the hasty US evacuation from Vietnam.
“Remember, this is often not Saigon,” he said. “We visited Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission. which mission was to affect the parents who attacked us on 9/11. and that we have succeeded therein mission.”
The USA is leaving Afghans in precisely the situation that the Americans wanted – a nation of squabbling warlords,antagonistc tribes and a resurgent Taliban.If the US wanted they could have bombed the Taliban,and at least delayed the Taliban wave until September – but they did NOT.
The US wants to put the fear of death into Ghani and his merry men, and the warlords – to push them into a coalition – desired by the USA, and funded by the USA.
Ultimately that will also fail,and the nation will be divided into “zones of influence”,with the maximum spread with the Taliban,and the Taliban controlling the supply chains to all oteher zones.So you will have a interlocked and connected matrix,which is spun by the USA ,every few months, by some “event” – to keep the players ,in their place – strategic disequilibrium – where all players are off balance – but will not collapse.
The Taliban will earn toll revenues from infra (built by the hapless Indians),and tax revenues from tradea,s CORRUPTION WILL DECLINE SHARPLY – and that is enough to finance the Islamic state.The BONUS will be Chinese investments into Taliban ,for minerals and the royalty,transit fees and profit taxes ,which will then get the Taliban, the funds to build an Airforce,which will then take over Afghanistan
The Mongols will redeem the Islamic state of the Taliban,as a part of the Ghazwa E Hind and other prophecies.In Return,Taliban will offer no sanctuary to East Turkmenisation and Xinjiang fighters ! Using the Chinese to deal with the Taliban is the best option,as they are a new face with NO HISTORY OF GENOCIDE AND PERFIDY IN AFGHANISTAN !
It is a NEW DAWN and the rise of the 1st REAL ISLAMIC NATION – which will be the most prosperous in the world (among Muslim nations) as the population is just 40 million and the nation has Trillions of USD of Minerals and will earn Billions of USD,via transit fees for the logistics and hydrocarbon corridors !
And that will lead to the revival of the Islamic nation (based on shariat) across all Muslim nations.It will be the 1st AND ONLY VIABLE TO THE DUBIOUS ELECTORAL DEMOCRACIES OF MUSLIM NATIONS.
WHAT CAN THE INDIAN WEASELS DO ? THEY COULD NOT PROTECT THEIR INFRA OR THEIR MI-24 CHOPPERS OR THEIR TRAINED AFGHAN ARMY OR NAJIBULLAH or CHABAHAR or THE TAKEOVER OF CHABAHAR BY PRC ?
THE INDIAN ARMY IS A PANSY FORCE – WHICH EVOKES NO FEAR OR RESPECT IN ENEMIES ! KILLING KASHMIRIS IS EASY, AND SO IS FIGHTING OUTNUMBERED KASHMIRI MJAHIDEEN,ON A SUICIDE MISSION, ARMED WITH AK-47 AND LIMITED AMMO AND NO KEVLAR ! AND STILL THE INDIAN PANSY CALLS ITSELF BATTLE HARDENED !
THE SAME APPLIES TO THE IAF ! IT HAS NO ROLE IN AFGHAN ! THE GOI MIGHT HAVE ALREADY CUT A DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN – TO NOT SEND IN THE ARMY OR IAF , AND NOT O TAID GHANI – AND IN LIEU,THEREOF,TALIBAN DOES NOT DESTROY INDIAN ASSETS AND DOES NOT ENTER KASHMIR !
THE INDIANS CANT EVEN KEEP THEIR MIGs FROM CRASHING – AND HOW DEEP CAN THE IAF GO INTO AFGHAN AND FROM WHERE – WHOSE AIRSPACE AND WHOSE REFUELLING AND WHOSE CARRIERS ? WHOEVER AIDS THE INDIANS WILL BE BOMBED BY THE TALIBAN ! dindooohindoo
IN ESSENCE,HINDOOS HAVE NO ROLE OR PLACE IN AFGHANISTAN ! BY RACE AND RELIGION THE PERSIANS,CENTRAL ASIANS,TURKS AND PAKISTANIS ,HAVE A ROLE ,AND AN AXE TO GRIND ! INDIANS ARE HISTORY – THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY !
THE US WILL GET TALIBAN TO KABUL ,BUT IN A GRADUATED MANNER – TO REALISE THE ROLE AND POWER OF THE US – AND IN RETURN,,TALIBAN HAS TO GIVE NO SPACE TO AL QAEDA ,AND BE MORE HUMANISTIC !
PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN WILL SEE THE MAGICAL NEW FACE OF TOLERANCE OF THE TALIBAN ,TO EVERYTHING EXCEPT CORRUPTION , VULGARITY AND BLASPHEMY !
AND ULTIMATELY, THE TALIBAN WILL LIBERATE KASHMIR WITH THE MONGOLS AND PAKISTANIS – NOT ONLY, DUE TO PROVIDENCE – BUT BECAUSE IDEOLOGY TRUMPS ALL TACTICAL ALLIANCES ,AND THE TALIBAN THRUST INTO KASHMIR, IS THE ISLAMIC SALVATION OF THE TALIBAN AND THE LAND OF THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL , ID.EST AFGHANISTAN !