Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The United States\u2019 inability to win the Afghanistan war through three administrations and nearly a dozen different field commanders since 2001 has shown that Washington can\u2019t force competing Afghan factions to get along, regardless of how many troops we have deployed or strategies we\u2019ve tried.<\/p>\n What President Trump can do, that all his predecessors have failed to do, however, is achieve success by ordering a coordinated and professionally executed withdrawal.<\/p>\n On Feb. 29, Trump hailed an agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban that was designed to end the \u201clong and hard journey\u201d of America\u2019s war in Afghanistan. It was time, he promised, \u201cto bring our people home.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately, there were so many requirements for external and competing actors to take unified action that there was no practical hope the agreement would end anything. The results and consequences of the past two Afghan presidential elections have painfully illustrated why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Mike Pompeo recently threatened two Afghan leaders with a full U.S. military withdrawal if they didn\u2019t resolve their political dispute and negotiate an end to the war with the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[226,32,255],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-politics","category-security","tag-afghanistan-war","tag-taliban","tag-us-forces"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n