"People of Afghanistan will pay the price for the West's looming deal with the Islamic Emirate it destroyed after 9/11."
11 years ago, the United States went to war in Afghanistan, promising to free its people from a despotic Islamist regime. President George Bush never delivered on his promises of reconstruction. The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : West's romancing of the Taliban:
Now, even the political promise is vanishing: the U.S. is spearheading an effort to make peace with the Islamists it promised to free Afghanistan from.