As awful as the Taliban is, and there is a lot of awful governments all over the world doing a lot of awful things, do we really think that at this point, if the Taliban came back into power--they are fighting ISIS too, by the way.
Adam Smith acknowledges the Taliban's role in fighting ISIS despite their negative reputation.
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The focus there needs to be on the enforcement, the surveillance, because the sanctions are in place.
It is one thing with respect to Iran to go it alone, and we did, and we did it fairly successfully leading up to the nuclear deal.
Maduro has proven amenable to some sort of quid pro quo of sanctions relief for some moves for democratization.
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