Walsh, a specialist in Afghan affairs and who is also a senior researcher at the American Institute of Peace, explained - in his statements to the Beyond the News program on (9/12/2020) - that the US administration wants to withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan and completely end the war it started there 19 years ago. But it does not want its withdrawal to lead to a humanitarian catastrophe that the Afghan people will pay their bill as a result of the internal Afghan conflict.
Walsh stressed that despite the importance the United States attaches to the Afghan reconciliation, it will not interfere in the details of the dialogue, and it will leave the Afghans alone to determine what their state will look like.
However, he indicated that neither the United States nor the international and human rights forces and institutions will continue to support Afghanistan in the future, if women's and human rights and democratic standards are not respected in it.
Although Walsh emphasized that Americans and everyone understand the difficulty of the current negotiating path between the government and the Taliban movement, in order to reach understandings on building a new Afghanistan in the future, he pointed out that the Taliban announced that they had retreated from a number of their "wrong" policies that they were following in the past.
However, Afghan journalist and researcher Bilal Sorour refused to believe America's claims that it would leave Afghanistan completely after achieving the Afghan reconciliation, and it was likely that it would keep a number of its forces there.
Sorour said that Afghans still remember the critical situation their country reached after America's withdrawal from it in 1985, following the defeat of the Soviet Union.
Sorour talked about the great hopes that Afghans place on the talks taking place in Doha, despite their realization that the matter faces many obstacles and difficulties that need a lot of work to overcome, and it requires the two parties to the dialogue to make a number of concessions, noting that the Taliban had previously made concessions in its dialogue with United State.
In this regard, Qatari writer and analyst Jaber Al-Harami affirmed that his country, which hosts the Afghan dialogue and has previously sponsored the dialogue between the Taliban and the United States, is fully aware of the size of the challenges and the nature of the obstacles facing the current Afghan dialogue, and is developing plans to dismantle these obstacles and achieve the desired peace for the Afghan people. According to what Afghans see and want for themselves and their country.
Al-Harami indicated that the United States had previously asked Doha to intervene in more than one file, including assistance in liberating American soldiers from the Taliban.