And...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/opinions/gans-john-bolton-and-the-lost-art-of-honest-brokering/index.html
It's only surprising because of how quickly they're being published. CNN was, one way or another, prepared for this.
The board settings should be such that you don't have permissions to start threads. It's not about you; there's apparently a bug in the board software.
By this logic, Egypt and Israel should still be at war.
You'd be better going with the Mavis Leno/Hillary Clinton argument that we should break off all contact with the Taliban because they're mean to women.