Sediq Sediqqi, spokesperson for the President of Afghanistan, gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Kabul on September 8, 2019. US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he had called off negotiations with the Taliban, apparently ending a year-long diplomatic push to exit America’s longest war, has left the withdrawal deal shrouded in uncertainty.
“If Trump wants to stop talks, we will take the first way and they will soon regret it,” he also said. “Over the last four days, we have been hitting our Enemy harder than at any time in the last ten years!” he wrote in a tweet. He said this was in retaliation for the killing of a US soldier by the Taliban in a huge Kabul bomb blast last week.
There was also widespread consternation at the characteristically unpredictable manner of Trump’s negotiating style.In a tweet, he accused journalists of trying “to create the look of turmoil in the White House, of which there is none”.“In terms of advisers, I took my own advice,” he later told reporters.
It is widely thought that Trump has been pushing for a withdrawal of US troops in time for his 2020 reelection bid.However, whether because of last week’s killing of a US soldier, as he said, or due to wider misgivings, that goal now appears in tatters.Several Republican lawmakers concurred with the president’s decision on the talks.
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