The Taliban have agreed to attend peace talks in Moscow on September 4. The United States and its Afghan client government have declined an invitation to attend. The U.S. is attempting to negotiate its own peace deal with the Taliban. Pompeo, commenting the other day on the Trump administration's support for Ghani's call for an Eid al-Adha ceasefire, sounded like Mahatma Gandhi.
The U.S. wants peace with the Taliban now because the U.S. wants to use Islamic State proxies along the border with Iran. A U.S. war on Iran is coming.
Like so much else the U.S. does these days its position is nonsense designed to engineer the next war. Moscow is offering the Taliban a seat at the table with India, Pakistan and other regional players. The U.S.? It's unclear what the U.S. is offering beyond "fight with us against the Shia in Iran instead of against us in your own home."
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