Afghanistan is doomed to Taliban control

Joe Biden clearly doesn't know what to do about Afghanistan and in particular about the Taliban and the 2,500-3,500 US troops still stationed there. He made what I thought was a bizarre statement the other day. He said it would be difficult to get all the troops out by the deadline of May 1 in accordance with the Qatar deal signed on February 29 last year but he fully anticipated they would all be home by the end of this year. As has always been the case, the Taliban just have to wait their time and when all the American and other international troops have gone they will shout victory and march on Kabul. In fact they are already shouting victory. They don't care what Biden is thinking about in Washington. They don't care a hoot about US politics. All they care about is ratcheting up the violence and killing to remind everyone who wants peace that there will be no such thing as peace unless and until they are back in charge and every infidel has left the country. All these fancy talks in Qatar have been about public relations candy floss. Meaningless verbiage. It matters not that their negotiators have signed a deal with the Americans.That was only about getting the US to agree to leave the country. They have flouted all the other clauses in the agreement about stopping or at least reducing the violence, and despite condemnation by Biden and his military commanders, the Taliban have shown they couldn't care less. It's not like their leaders are going to be summoned before the war crimes tribunal in The Hague for killing civilians wholesale. They will never be on trial for anything. Their top-tier leaders were held in Guantanamo for years as "enemy combat detainees" but then released and hey presto they turned up in Qatar as the main negotiating team. So of course they had no interest in obeying anything the US wanted, whatever the Qatar deal says. The Taliban were overthrown twenty years ago and driven from Kabul and in the not too distant future they will be reigning supreme once again. This is the most appalling news for the Afghan people and in particular for Afghan women. Biden knows all this but he is not going to be the president to start the war all over again. So, as he said, all US troops will be withdrawn but maybe not by May 1. The Taliban will denounce this as a violation of the peace agreement. Hollow laugh!!!!