My best guess on the conversation between Pompeo and Taliban:

No one wants to be in Afghanistan anymore. There's no graceful way to leave unless we wait until POTUS 4th year, knowing they were going to try to steal the election and seat biden in the White House.

Let biden take the heat and the fall and give the

Our concessions:

• Taliban the ability to control their own country.

• We give them the ability to say the defeated the US, but not our US, bidens US.

• We tell them we will keep clowns out of their business.

• We help them maintain their distance from china.

Their concessions:

• They must remain non aggressive to the US.

• Don't speak badly of 45's team.

• Control their opium.

• Trade exclusively with the US for the resources that we wanted when we went in their to begin with.

Consequences:

• US will fuck you up.

• The chinese will be knocking on the door looking for oil, railways, and lithium to power all the US electric equipment. A chinese invasion looks significantly different than a US occupation.

(Pompeo shows video of Uyghurs).

I think getting the lithium and oil from the region, building an ally, and showing them that we can take out china with the next phase of the plan which will protect them from being wiped of the face of the earth, is a good deal.