America Needs a Long-Term Policy for Afghanistan

The most dangerous things happen when we aren’t looking.

AP/Mohammad Asif Khan
Taliban soldiers in September 2021 at Panjshir province, northeastern Afghanistan. AP/Mohammad Asif Khan
C.M. VIK
C.M. VIK

The deputy CIA director, David Cohen, recently met with the Taliban’s intelligence chief at Doha, Qatar. When I learned of this meeting from two aides in the previous Afghan government, Qasim Wafayezada and Aref Dostyar, I was startled.

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