Taliban Argumentative Essay

By the fourth year of President Obama’s presidency, he wanted to negotiate with the Taliban. There was no other way that the United States could prevent from Afghanistan going back to a civil war without negotiating. However, one individual didn’t think that a stable Afghanistan was essential. Richard Holbrooke believed that a stable Pakistan was essential. He believed that Afghanistan could fall to the Taliban and that would be a black mark on American diplomacy and the military similar to the fall of Saigon in 1975 during the Vietnam War (Sanger, 132). Strategically, Holbrooke believed, that this would mean very little. However, if Pakistan fell to the Taliban, the nuclear weapons would be possessed by them and this would be a huge problem