Afghanistan: Surrender and withdrawal, or a policy to sustain democratic government?

See,

1) Alain Frachon, “Comme Barack Obama et Donald Trump avant lui, Joe Biden hésite à partir d’Afghanistan; Avant de s’engager dans un retrait du pays, la priorité pour le président américain est d’obtenir un accord entre les talibans et le président,” Le Monde, le 1 avril 2021 (12:20 h).

2) Adam Nossiter, “The Taliban Think They Have Already Won, Peace Deal or Not; “We have defeated the enemy.” The international community is scrambling to secure peace in Afghanistan, but the Taliban believe they have the upper hand — and are saying as much,” New York Times, March 30, 2021.
Adam Nossiter is the Kabul Bureau Chief for the New York Times.

3) James Rowles, “Afghanistan: Biden’s Achilles Heel,” The Trenchant Observer, March 30, 2021.

4) James Rowles, “Biden’s looming foreign policy catastrophe in Afghanistan,” The Trenchant Observer, March 21, 2021.