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求英文的,塔利班和美国关系的历史渊源,要史实和适当适量的评论,写论文用 一定要英文,..
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Foreign powers,including the United States,briefly supported the Taliban,hoping it would restore order in the war-ravaged country.For example,it made no comment when the Taliban captured Herat in 1995,and expelled thousands of girls from schools.These hopes faded as the Taliban began killing unarmed civilians,targeting ethnic groups (primarily Hazaras),and restricting the rights of women.In late 1997,American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright began to distance the U.S.from the Taliban.The next year,the American-based oil company Unocal withdrew from negotiations on pipeline construction from Central Asia.
One day before the capture of Mazar,bin Laden affiliates bombed two U.S.embassies in Africa,killing 224 and wounding 4,500,mostly Africans.The U.S.responded by launching cruise missiles on suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan,killing over 20 though failing to kill bin Laden or even many Al-Qaeda.Mullah Omar condemned the missile attack and American President Bill Clinton.Saudi Arabia expelled the Taliban envoy in protest over the refusal to turn over bin Laden,and after Mullah Omar allegedly insulted the Saudi royal family.[180] In mid-October the U.N.Security Council voted unanimously to ban commercial aircraft flights to and from Afghanistan,and freeze its bank accounts worldwide.
Adjusting its counterinsurgency strategy,in October ,the U.S announced plans to pay Taliban fighters to switch sides
On November 26,,in an interview with CNNs Christiane Amanpour,President Hamid Karzai said there is an urgent need for negotiations with the Taliban,and made it clear that the Obama administration had opposed such talks.There was no formal American response
In early December ,the Taliban offered to give the U.S.legal guarantees that they would not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries.There was no formal American response.
On December 6,U.S officials indicated that they have not ruled out talks with the Taliban Several days later it was reported that Gates saw potential for reconciliation with the Taliban,but not with Al-Qaeda.Furthermore,he said that reconciliation would politically end the insurgency and the war.But he said reconciliation must be on the Afghan governments terms,and that the Taliban must be subject to the sovereignty of the government.
In ,General McChrystal said his troop surge could lead to a negotiated peace with the Taliban.
Allegations of connection to CIA There have been many claims that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al-Qaeda.In the early 1980s,the CIA and th
