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forces withdrew from Afghanistan, the diplomatic isolation that followed is showing its first signs of lifting. The Taliban has called for the U.S.
embassy in Kabul to reopen and is formally inviting American investors to put capital into Afghanistan's infrastructure and mineral resources.
The outreach lands against the backdrop of a recognizable post-conflict cycle.
An extended period of international freeze gives way, eventually, to a controlled opening, with the group in power selecting its preferred interlocutor. Here, that interlocutor is explicitly American.
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