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Bargaining with the Taliban devil

President Trump was rightly critical of the deal struck with Cuba during the Obama administration when he said the communist Cuban government got everything they wanted, and the U.S. got nothing in exchange. He has thankfully been reversing some of those unilateral concessions.

Let's apply his standard to the recently announced "peace deal" with the Taliban. Under terms, "The U.S. will free 5,000 Taliban prisoners and begin to remove sanctions on top Taliban leaders."

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