Any U.S. recognition of Taliban rule is unlikely in the near term — it would infuriate Congress and damage the White House politically.
They’d promised to be “inclusive.” But as the Taliban unveiled their new caretaker government in Afghanistan this week — an all-male roster of hardline clerics, veteran fighters and at leastSen. Lindsey Graham called the choices a “lineup of thugs and butchers.” A senior Biden administration official bemoaned that the new administration included “individuals on terrorist lists.”
But the understandable U.S. reluctance to recognize the new government could spawn confusion in the years ahead everywhere from courtrooms to summit corridors, not to mention complicate dealings with a country whose population relies heavily on foreign aid. Over time, as it has with some other countries, the U.S. might find itself tacitly recognizing a Taliban government even if it never explicitly does so.
“It’s not really an active, current discussion,” a senior administration official told POLITICO. President Joe Biden himself has said such recognition is a “The lack of a recognized government in Kabul is nonetheless already creating headaches beyond the White House. “The Taliban says it seeks international legitimacy and international support. And that will depend entirely on what it does, not just on what it says,” Secretary of Statetold TOLO News when asked this week about recognition. “And the trajectory of its relationship with us and with the rest of the world will depend on its actions.”
— is engaging the militants to ensure that they keep their pledges to allow foreign nationals and Afghans with travel permits to leave Afghanistan. On Thursday, the Taliban let some 200 people fly out.they may cooperate with the Taliban
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