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As the Taliban mounted a conquest of  Afghanistan, the Biden administration continued to believe that the Jihadists were interested in peace and that their campaign of conquest was a negotiating strategy.

The British document also showed that the U.S. was privately briefing allies that they should be prepared for a Taliban offensive before any settlement that might have allowed former President Ashraf Ghani to remain in power. U.S. diplomats said that the Taliban would “test the Afghan government militarily” before they started taking seriously peace talks that were taking place in Doha, the note said.

If you want to understand how these same people can believe that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, or that Hamas is just firing rockets at Israel as a negotiating strategy, this is the mindset.

The Qataris (including their allies and operatives inside the Biden administration) appeared to have handfed the Biden administration the notion that the Taliban’s program of conquest was a negotiating strategy aimed at securing leverage.

It never seemed to have crossed Biden’s mind, that of his State Department and political appointees, that the Taliban were not interested in a diplomatic solution.

They weren’t looking for leverage, they wanted to win. 

After decades of insisting that there wasn’t a military solution to Afghanistan, the Democrats had come to believe it. But the Taliban had a military solution.

So do Iran and Hamas.

There’s no point in negotiating with terrorists. The only thing such negotiations can do is achieve a temporary truce in line with Islamic laws governing pacts with infidels.

And beyond that the Jihad continues.

Anyone who thinks that Jihadists can be negotiated with is a fool.