We Need an Insurance Policy on the Taliban Deal

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

On Saturday, President Trump announced an end to the longest war in U.S. history. Unfortunately, the deal just struck with the Taliban risks repeating what happened after Henry Kissinger’s secret bilateral negotiations with North Vietnam. 

The then-Secretary of State promised “peace with honor.” But his deal left in place in South Vietnam large numbers of armed military forces poised to finish conquering our allies there. The North Vietnamese quickly did just that.

The President and our country need an insurance policy lest a similar nightmare unfold shortly at the Talibans’ hands in Afghanistan. Nothing in the deal precludes skilled, volunteer veterans helping the Afghan military and a self-defense and governance organization modeled after the one called CORDS that actually worked in Vietnam. 

Mr. President, give peace – and the Afghan people – a real chance, not another short-lived and fatal “decent interval.”  

This is Frank Gaffney.