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As surprising as the first visit of the president of the United States to Afghanistan has been the news that his country has resumed dialogue with the fundamentalists. Donald Trump has set foot in the Bagram military base without prior announcement, although accompanied by the acting Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, to visit the troops deployed in the country at war on the occasion of Thanksgiving.

Just over two months ago, Trump himself called the Taliban negotiations "dead" shortly after an attack in which 12 people died, including a US soldier. Since then, although a series of meetings on Pakistani soil between Taliban leaders and the US envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Jalilzad, were an open secret, it has not been until Thursday when a triumphant Trump has given the new to the soldiery .

"The Taliban want to reach an agreement. We will see if that is the case. If they do, they do it, and if they do not, well, no, it is fine," Trump began, true to his style, before a group of about one hundred military compatriots, whom he has praised by calling them "brave American soldiers." "We've been saying there must be a ceasefire, and they didn't want a ceasefire," he recalled later. "Now they want a ceasefire. I think it will probably work that way." Ghani, meanwhile, has referred to Trump as "the architect" of the strategy to "annihilate Al Qaeda" in Afghanistan. He also congratulated him on the death of the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr Bagdadi.

A cessation of hostilities between the main insurgent armed group and the Afghan security forces has always been considered the basis of all negotiations to end the war raging in Afghanistan since 2001, the year when the Taliban government was overthrown by an international coalition, with the support of some Afghan militias. However, the Taliban have not recognized the current Afghan Executive as a valid interlocutor until today, and have maintained their challenge with little truce.

The United States, Russia, Pakistan, Qatar and even, this week, Iran have talked with the Taliban in search of an understanding, something that Kabul has vehemently criticized, because, in his opinion, size recognition strengthens extremists, who aspire to recover at least one plot of power and achieve the total withdrawal of US troops from Afghan soil.

Precisely such an objective, present in the same program of the Government of Donald Trump, is the one pursued by the White House with its negotiations. This Thursday in front of the uniformed men, who have served the traditional Thanksgiving turkey, the president has emphasized his desire to at least reduce the presence of troops from the current 12,000 to 8,600. "We will stay until we reach an agreement, or achieve total victory, and they desperately want to reach an agreement," Trump said.

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