June 26, 2023

Keep calm and tell Ukraine to carry on

Source: POLITICO

Journalists: Alexander Ward, Matt Berg, Ari Hawkins

Lisa Curtis, a top NSC official for Afghanistan during the Trump administration and now at the Center for a New American Security think tank, argued SIGAR should look into the failed diplomacy between the U.S. and the Taliban.

“SIGAR should explore how the U.S.-Taliban talks were handled by the Trump administration,” she told NatSec Daily, including the release of thousands of Taliban prisoners. “The assessment should also probe the policy process on Afghanistan and the handling of talks with the Taliban during the first eight months of the Biden administration.”

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  • Lisa Curtis

    Senior Fellow and Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program

    Lisa Curtis is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at CNAS. She is a foreign policy and national security expert with over 20 years of service in...