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>Neither of your sources says that the Taliban offered to surrender themselves. "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that the United States wou
by 542354234235 5y ago
>Neither of your sources says that the Taliban offered to surrender themselves.
"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that the United States would not accept a negotiated surrender between Afghanistan's new interim government and besieged Taliban forces in Kandahar that granted amnesty to Taliban leader Mohammad Omar."
>We can’t know if the Taliban would have followed through, but it was the US refusal to seriously negotiate, not the Taliban.
Literally what I said.
- lucas_membrane 5y agoThe Taliban said that they would agree to have OBL tried under Islamic law. That sounded to me like an opening position at the start of negotiations. That sounded to Dick Cheney like an excuse to not negotiate and go to war. Going to war sounded to Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld like an excuse to build up American capabilities in the region so that America could have another war to convert Iraq into a shining light of democracy pumping out oil under a constitution written by the USA.