"Efforts for Peace:" Another Way to Intensify Conflicts and War in the Country - Sholajawid
In a recent trip to Kabul, the
NATO general secretary in a joint press conference with the president
of the puppet regime announced:
“We have not set a timetable for withdrawing our troops from
Afghanistan. We will stay here as long as needed. Therefore, it is
better than the Taliban should stop killing and should start
negotiating with Afghanistan’s government.”
The above statement was made while Zalmay Khalilzad, representing
the US government, was pursuing negotiations with the Taliban’s office
in Qatar and both sides have made commitments to continue the dialogue.
However, this was not the first meeting between the two sides. Since
2010 several rounds of negotiations on different issues including
ending the war and achieving peace in Afghanistan have taken place. The
fact that differentiates this negotiation with those that took place
behind the closed doors during the past 8 years is its openness.
Conversely, the Afghanistan Peace Conference––hosted by Russian
imperialists and including the participation of representatives from 10
Asian governments, the Taliban, the Afghanistan High Peace Council,
and an American diplomat residing in Moscow and representing the US
government––took place.
The Afghanistan High Peace Council is a creature of the puppet
regime and thus serves the regime and its imperialist patrons.
Therefore, this group represents the interests of the puppet regime in
the Moscow Peace conference. Therefore, the Taliban’s refusal to sit in
a face to face meeting with the puppet regime has clearly cracked. Now
it is highly probable that in the near future a more direct meeting
between the Taliban and the puppet regime will occur.
At the same time, disregarding the low-rank of the US
representative in the Moscow conference, it is apparent that Americans
cannot afford to not participate in such meetings. Thus, the initial
opposition of the Americans towards the Moscow Peace Conference was not
serious and soon changed to attendance as an observer. It shows the
fracture of the US’s monopolistic attitude towards war and peace in
Afghanistan which is an illustration of America’s declining influence in
the region. The proposal to postpone the presidential election of the
puppet regime as a gesture of goodwill towards the Taliban is another
sign of the US’s weakness in Afghanistan. Although it is unlikely that
it would become the official position of the American government, even
mentioning it, like their direct negotiations with the Taliban, is
deepening, strengthening and expanding the illegitimacy of the puppet
regime; if it was implemented it would intensify the illegitimacy of
the puppet regime.
Now the issue is not whether direct negotiations between the puppet
regime and the Taliban would begin or not since that is a possibility.
Rather the issue is that the start of the negotiations would not
automatically result in ending the war and establishing peace. Several
years of negotiation between the Islamic State of Afghanistan, under
the leadership of Rabbani-Massoud, and the Taliban did not result in
ending the war. Experience shows that such negotiations in Syria and
Yemen have not yet resulted in ending either war.
On the contrary, it is clear even now that the objective and
subjective intensification of contradictions in Afghanistan and of the
international and regional situation related to it has resulted in
efforts for peace as another sphere of the struggles for securing their
imperialist and reactionary interests in Afghanistan. At the same
time, even fake or real efforts for peace are characterized by
preventing a direct military confrontation between big and small
powers.
International and domestic efforts for so-called peace in the
current conditions of Afghanistan is another excuse for intensifying
war in the country, apparently for gaining further concessions in
future rounds of negotiations. Therefore, if this negotiation occurs in
the future the process of negotiations would result in an
intensification of war for the purpose of gaining concessions behind the
negotiating table. The sum of this situation would add new dimension
to the conflicts in Afghanistan.
The active re-engagement of the Russian imperialists in the affairs
of Afghanistan, through the Moscow Peace Conference, have not
decreased conflict but have further complicated the situation. Russia
wants to reestablish and expand the historical influence that the
Soviet social-imperialists once possessed in Afghanistan. As an
internal factor the Taliban, more than the puppet regime, carries the
historical responsibility of re-engaging Russian imperialists,
yesteryear’s occupiers, in the conflicts of Afghanistan.
On the one hand, the American imperialists' efforts in Afghanistan
is directed towards subjugating Afghanistan and its peoples. On the
other hand, these efforts are directed towards preventing the expansion
of Russian imperialism and Chinese social-imperialism in Afghanistan.
This is a situation where American imperialism is on a declining
course, its political and military partners gradually distancing
themselves from the superpower leading the alliance. If the European
imperialist powers would be able to establish a European military, the
formation of an imperialist bloc between the US and Russia would be
completed and the world would be further polarized. This situation
would not decrease global and regional conflicts, including the
conflicts in Afghanistan, but in contrast it would increase the avarice
of Russian imperialists towards Afghanistan.
Therefore, the problem of war in Afghanistan is still far from
reaching a solution; there remains a long journey ahead to achieving
peace and stability in the country. It is our historical mission to
struggle for bringing forward an alternative and strong revolutionary
and national resistance against the occupying forces so as to break the
monopoly of the reactionary armed resistance of the Taliban in the
struggle against occupying forces and their satraps, and to also deprive
the occupiers of their legitimating efforts by drawing on the
historically archaic character of this resistance, particularly for the
public opinion in the US, so that the resistance of the peoples of
Afghanistan, similar to the resistance of Vietnamese people, can ignite
a strong anti-war movement in the US.
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