all of this started in 2020 with the Doha deal what is the Doha deal anything but a good deal for the people in Afghanistan or for us in America this is an agreement that was signed between zalma khalat the US ambassador for Afghanistan the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan at that time and the Taliban zai Khal zad started pushing this idea with the help of the state department that there are good Taliban and bad Taliban president Trump at this point was the president while the DOA deal was signed he wanted an end to war he wanted us service members to come home and he didn't want the US soldiers to die everyone in Afghanistan they were tired of War they wanted peace but not this type of peace that they eventually got this is not peace from the Afghan side they were looking at this Doha deal as a way to make the Taliban mainstream bring them into politics drop your weapons send in elections and so they said let's give the Taliban a chance and let's negotiate with them