[Peace-discuss] FW: Chimpanzees Adapt to Challenges Better Than US Policymakers on Afghanistan

[Boyle, Francis A]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
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Champaign IL 61820 USA
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From: Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 6:54 AM
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Subject: FW: Chimpanzees Adapt to Challenges Better Than US Policymakers on Afghanistan

University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle agreed that victory was impossible in Afghanistan and that Trump’s new strategy could not deliver it.
"Everyone knows the US War in Afghanistan is lost. Trump just does not want Kabul to fall while he is still president. So he is just treading water until he can pass off Afghanistan to his successor and let Kabul fall on his or her watch," he said.
Trump is now guilty of the same abdication of responsibility that he had accurately blamed on his predecessor, President Barack Obama of, Boyle stated.
"This is exactly what Obama did to Trump. [Sending] 4,000 more troops is just putting a band aid on a hemorrhaging artery and they know it," he said.
The United States needs to acknowledge the political power and credibility of the Taliban and negotiate directly with it, Boyle maintained.
"The only solution here is for the United States to negotiate directly with the Taliban for an orderly US withdrawal from Afghanistan that will reinstall the Taliban government in power," he advised.
It was the administration of President George W. Bush that illegally ousted the Taliban government in the first place by launching a war of aggression against Afghanistan in 2001, Boyle recalled.
"There will be no peace in Afghanistan until that original international crime has been rectified," he said.
Trump has approved a modest increase in the number of US troops serving in Afghanistan.


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

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Posted on: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 4:00 PM
Author: "Francis Boyle" - BingNews
Subject: Chimpanzees Adapt to Challenges Better Than US Policymakers on Afghanistan

"Does it make any real difference? Can it work? No! No!" he said. University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle agreed that victory was impossible in Afghanistan and that Trump’s new strategy could not deliver it. "Everyone knows ...


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