‘Insane … Ridiculous’: State Dept Challenged Over Claim Taliban Wants a Just and Durable Peace

For weeks the State Department has been repeating the claim that the Taliban cares about international legitimacy and shares other parties’ interests in a “durable” peace. But amid claims the terrorist group may be committing war crimes as it seizes territory a reporter at the department’s daily briefing on Wednesday charged that the assertions were “getting to the point of intellectual dishonesty.”