{"id":1534829,"date":"2022-07-01T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534829"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:56:24","slug":"biden-officials-to-hold-talks-with-taliban-over-frozen-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-officials-to-hold-talks-with-taliban-over-frozen-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Officials to Hold Talks With Taliban Over Frozen Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-officials-to-hold-talks-with-taliban-over-frozen-funds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Suddenly it seems as if the Biden administration has launched into a flurry of meetings with foreign governments (and pseudo-governments) about all sorts of things. And they aren\u2019t all countries you\u2019d expect us to be talking to. On top of scheduling a meeting with the Saudi royal family (who are supposedly <em>persona non grata<\/em> because of assassinating a Washington Post journalist) and meeting with the unrecognized and illegitimate <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2022\/06\/28\/biden-sends-team-to-make-nice-with-venezuela-n479210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201cpresident\u201d of Venezuela<\/a>, we\u2019re now learning that a delegation is heading to Qatar <a href=\"http:\/\/krdo.com\/news\/ap-national-business\/2022\/06\/29\/taliban-and-us-officials-to-meet-amid-quake-relief-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to meet with the Taliban<\/a>. And what will be on the agenda there? Why, they\u2019ll be talking about unfreezing the Taliban\u2019s overseas assets, of course. But we\u2019re not doing it to help the Taliban. Perish the thought. We\u2019re just making sure they have enough money to help their oppressed people after the recent earthquake in that country. (KRDO)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afghan finance and central bank officials from the Taliban-led government have departed for Qatar to meet with U.S. officials. The move comes after last week\u2019s deadly earthquake highlighted how critical relief efforts have stumbled under the weight of the country\u2019s spiraling economic woes. The quake in southeastern Afghanistan killed at least 770 people. That\u2019s according to the U.N, though the Taliban put the figure at around 1,150 people killed. Wednesday\u2019s meeting in Qatar was confirmed by Afghanistan\u2019s foreign ministry. The Washington Post first reported that Biden administration officials are considering ways to allow Afghanistan\u2019s government to use its frozen central bank reserves to tackle the humanitarian crises there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that the earthquake that rocked Afghanistan was bad. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-61890804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It absolutely was<\/a>. At least one thousand people are dead and many more remain missing. What little infrastructure they have was damaged badly. It was yet another body blow to the rank-and-file people of that country who have already been through hell and back again after the return of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>But are we seriously talking about unfreezing their assets and treating them like a legitimate government? I\u2019m not denying in any way that the people of that country need help. They clearly do. But foreign nations have already been pumping large amounts of cash and other forms of relief into Afghanistan but \u201cmysteriously\u201d the conditions for the average people on the streets have not been improving. If anything, they\u2019ve gotten worse. And that was true <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/05\/1117812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long before the earthquake struck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If we unlock all or most of their foreign-held assets, does anyone honestly believe that the pack of terrorists in Kabul is going to apply that money to sending out food and improving the lives of regular Afghan citizens? Also, by releasing the funds, that would be just one more step on the journey toward what the Taliban has desired all along. They want to be recognized by the world as the legitimate government of the country they took over in a violent coup after our botched withdrawal from the country last summer.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way around this and it could be done by an existing international coalition if the Taliban would allow it. Send in humanitarian aid workers with food, medicine, and other needed supplies (but not cash) and see if the Taliban allows them to distribute the aid to the people who are actually in need. If they agree to that, then maybe we can begin thinking about them as a potentially legitimate government in the future. But I won\u2019t be holding my breath. The Taliban don\u2019t care about their own people and they have made that clear. And not to put too fine of a point on this, but we didn\u2019t cause the earthquake. Earthquakes happen sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>We seem to be cutting deals with some of the worst people in the world these days. And we\u2019re doing it at the same time that we\u2019re edging closer and closer to a potential war with Russia and\/or China. There is little rhyme or reason to America\u2019s current foreign policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly it seems as if the Biden administration has launched into a flurry of meetings with foreign governments (and pseudo-governments) about all sorts of things. 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