Afghan president wants U.S. to share details of draft deal with all leaders: spokesman

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 / 8:39 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Afghan president wants U.S. to share details of draft deal with all leaders: spokesman

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday told the U.S envoy for Afghanistan to share details of a draft deal between the U.S. and Taliban with all Afghan leaders, the president’s spokesman said.

Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born U.S. diplomat who has completed nine rounds of talks with Taliban representatives, met Ghani and is scheduled to hold meetings with all Afghan leaders in Kabul this week to build a consensus before the deal is signed.

The U.S.-backed government will need to “study and assess” details of the draft deal, the spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi, told reporters.

Khalilzad has met with Ghani twice in the last two days, he said.

Reporting by Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Rupam Jain

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-spokesman/afghan-president-wants-u-s-to-share-details-of-draft-deal-with-all-leaders-spokesman-idUSKCN1VN18B

[dawg day]

1. I wonder if the NSA John Bolton has been shut out again-

Apparently the president is feuding with him-- doesn't like to hear disagreement, and Bolton is always disagreeable! (Trump also hates the mustache.)

But so the National Security Advisor has nothing to do now with any of these negotiations or policies or decisions on who/what to support.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/01/opinions/trump-bolton-afghanistan-security-concerns-vinograd/index.html

[matt819]

2. If this happens

And that’s a big if ...

The US will screw it up, as we did the Peshawar accords in 1990, which opened the door to al Qaeda’s growth, and in turn the 9/11 attacks.

On a broader scale, in more than at least 180 years no western nation has engaged Afghanistan adversiarially and come away unscathed.