Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that President Donald Trump ended peace negotiations with the Taliban because the group had “failed to live up to a series of commitments they had made,” but he left open the possibility that U.S. troops could be withdrawn from Afghanistan even in the absence of a deal.
Despite Trump’s tweet, it was not clear that Taliban leadership had ever agreed to come to the president’s official Camp David retreat in Maryland for the meeting, a hastily organized effort by Trump to replicate past peace deals and declare that the U.S.’ longest war was being ended. The timing certainly would have been awkward — it was scheduled to take place just days before the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, which were planned on Afghan soil by terrorists under Taliban protection.
— Donald J. Trump September 7, 2019….an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? They didn’t, they….
It remains unclear why Trump canceled the meeting; while he linked it to the death of the American serviceman in a car bombing, other Americans have died in similar attacks while negotiations were underway in Doha, Qatar. Only recently did the U.S. government brief Ghani about the details of the negotiations, and even then would not leave him with a copy of the agreement about the fate of his country. Ghani has met several times with Khalilzad, the American envoy who is in charge of the peace negotiations. The two men have known each other for years.
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