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    Commentary: With little leverage in Afghanistan, the US can choose between a bad deal or no deal

    by Gil Barndollar, Los Angeles Times Sep 03, 2019 3 minutes

    After almost 18 years of war, the United States may finally be on the verge of withdrawing from Afghanistan.

    Opponents of an Afghan withdrawal or even drawdown justifiably point to the clear limits of the proposed deal U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has negotiated with the Taliban: The Afghan government has been sidelined, a cease-fire could prove transitory and the Taliban could renege on any pledge to renounce Al Qaeda. Yet there is also a clear reason for such an unsatisfactory

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