Former US Special Messenger in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzade called the last conclusion of the American troops “ugly final phase”, transfers Fox News.
Khalilzade, who was appointed in 2018 by the former US President Donald Trump as the main US negotiating with the Taliban, admitted that he left the Bayden administration less than two months after chaos on August 30.
“One of the reasons why I left the government is that negotiations were not based on reality and the facts that our alternatives were and what were our alternatives,” said Khalilzade.
Khalilzade did not criticize Joe Bayden, but said that the conclusion of the troops, which he agreed was to keep the “Taliban” under certain conditions. In his resignation, he stated that he was one of those conditions that were not fulfilled, was that the Taliban was negotiating directly with the Afghan government to conclude “Agreement on the separation of power and the complete cessation of fire.”
In his interview, Khalilzade also said that Biden decided to leave Afghanistan without these specific conditions.
The final part of the output of American troops from Afghanistan, during which 13 soldiers were killed, Khalilzade called “terrible”.
“It was a terrible final stage. No doubt. It could be much worse. The Taliban really helped with the withdrawal of troops. Everything could be much worse. Kabul could be destroyed. I went to Afghanistan after 30 years after the conclusion of Soviet troops, And what happened? Where neither look, everywhere there were destruction, like some German city after the Second World War. Only everything was much worse, “concluded the former special spot.