The former United States (US) special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said the US was losing the war to the Taliban so it chose peace negotiations as an alternative, reports Tolo News on October 24. Zalmay Khalilzad in an interview with CBS said that the US military tried many times to strengthen its position on the battleground, but it failed. “The negotiation was a result of--based on the judgment that we weren’t winning the war and therefore time was not on our side and better to make a deal sooner than later.”