The Doha Agreement was born of a comforting illusion. It promised that the Taliban—once granted legitimacy and a path to power—would abandon the absolutism that defined their past and move toward political inclusion, counterterrorism cooperation and respect for basic human rights. Instead, the world learned a familiar lesson: movements built on rigid ideology do not […]
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