US not loyal to current actors in Afghan government: ex-US diplomat

In a debate hosted by Brookings Institution, Laurel Miller, who served as acting US special representative toAfghanistanand Pakistan, reminded how some of the people that the US worked with during the Cold War later became outright adversaries, including Haqqanis.
“To me it doesn’t suggest that there is a loyalty that the United States owes to the current constellation of actors in the Afghan government,” Miller said. “There might be a variety of kinds of opportunities for the US to build partnerships with different characters there.”
Miller, who is the director of International Crisis Group’s Asia Program, said that the US did not defeat the Taliban and is not going to do so.
She said that the US has not been able to ensure the construction of an Afghan government in Kabul that could defeat the Taliban on its own.
She warned that a US departure from Afghanistan without a peace deal would likely result in a protracted and intensified civil war.
According to Miller, the conditions for a peace deal are going to worsen.