Ex-Envoy: ‘Conditions-Based’ Deal With Taliban Gave Way to a ‘Calendar-Based’ Approach

Former U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, in his first interview since resigning, repeatedly drew a distinction between the “conditions-based” agreement he signed with the Taliban early last year and the “calendar-based” approach that ultimately governed the chaotic end of the U.S. military engagement there.  Read