What does Douglas Lute mean when he says “The odds of this breaking down or coming to gridlock are significant”?

The sentence was culled from an interview granted by Lute concerning the Peace Treaty signed by the United States with Afghanistan under the current Trump administration in March 2020.

It was established in the analysis of the politics behind this move that the United States is not really interested in helping to ensure that peace return to this age-long, war-torn country, but that the move is simply a move to enhance Trump's political ambitions about re-election.

The Afghans have been in a prolonged conflict with the Taliban which is one of the reasons America stepped in. With this peace treaty which requires America to deescalate the military presence in Afghan, the Afghans through the voice of Douglas Lute are scared that America will pull out altogether and when they do, the somewhat progress that has been recorded will degenerate into a state where the Taliban will take Kabul thus resulting in a breakdown of order, peace or at best resulting in a gridlock between the Afghan forces and the Taliban who to date have not renounced al-Qaida in the face of the public, nor apologised for their part in the 9-11 bombings.    

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the bar kochba rebellion (132-135) against the roman empire, also known as the second jewish-roman war, was the second major jewish revolt in judea and the last of the great jewish-roman wars.

after the first jewish-roman war of the years 66-73, the roman authorities took measures to crush any new attempt of rebellion in judea. his political situation was modified and instead of a prefect a governor of praetorian rank was appointed, and in the ruins of jerusalem the seat of a complete roman legion, the legio x fretensis was established.

the political and religious direction of the jewish people was left in the hands of the sanhedrin, with initial headquarters in yavne.

the direct causes of the rebellion vary according to the source. the roman historian dio cassius (155-229) attributes the revolt to the decision of hadrian to found in the place of jerusalem a roman city called aelia capitolina (aelia by its own name and capitolina in honor of the roman god jupiter). on the other hand, the jewish sources, while recognizing this resolution as true, assign higher priority to the decrees dictated by hadrian that forbade the brit milah (circumcision), the respect of the sabbath and the laws of purity in the family.

hadrian's intention was to "civilize" and incorporate the jews once and for all into the greco-roman culture. for greek and roman culture, circumcision was an intolerable mutilation.

the jewish tradition tells in the midrash tanjuma a meeting between rabbi akiva and the governor turnus rufus, where he asked for an explanation about the circumcision.

an additional legion, the legio vi ferrata, moved to the province to maintain order, and work began in the year 131 after the governor of judea, turnus rufus performed the founding ceremony of aelia capitolina. a roman coin with the inscription aelia capitolina was struck in the year 132.

the tannaim rabbi akiva, who without being named nasi directed the sanhedrin, convinced the other members to support the imminent rebellion.

the jewish leaders carefully planned the second rebellion to avoid the numerous errors that had been committed in the first one. in the year 132 the rebellion led by bar kochba quickly expanded from modiim throughout the country, defeating the x roman legion based in jerusalem and destroying the xxii roman legion that had come from egypt.