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The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan is a 2014 book by British writer Jack Fairweather, a former Washington Post war correspondent, about the recent War in Afghanistan.
From April to June 2018, the People's Peace Movement held a peace march, called the "Helmand peace convoy", across Afghanistan, in reaction to a car bombing on 23 March 2018 in Lashkar Gah that had killed 14 people. [28] [29] [27] The marchers called for a ceasefire at least two days long. They marched through Taliban-controlled territory.
Opposition to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) stems from numerous factors, including the view that the United States invasion of Afghanistan was illegal under international law and constituted an unjustified aggression, the view that the continued military presence constitutes a foreign military occupation, the view that the war does little to prevent terrorism but increases its ...
Shoigu, a former defence minister, also said the U.S. should play a leading role in rebuilding Afghanistan in view of its many years of military involvement in the country. Taliban leaders asked ...
Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally expressed remorse that the Biden administration had not done more to protect the 13 US troops who were killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing during ...
Should President Obama decide to send more troops to Afghanistan, he will do it in the face of strong opposition from voters in his own party. In a USA Today / Gallup poll conducted October 6, 2009, 59% of Democrats, and 50% of independents, opposed sending more troops, while 73% of Republicans favored sending more troops.
"The future of Afghanistan needs to be determined by Afghans," William Ruger, Trump's nominee to be US ambassador there, told Insider.
Russia hosted a separate peace talk in November between the Taliban and officials from Afghanistan's High Peace Council. [398] The talks in Qatar resumed in December, [399] though the Taliban refused to allow the Afghan government to be invited, [400] considering them a puppet government of the US. [401]