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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4967379" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;Just days before the anniversary of 9/11 in 2019, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/7/1884137/-Days-before-9-11-anniversary-Trump-announces-and-cancels-secret-Taliban-meeting-at-Camp-David" target="_blank">Trump planned a series of “secret” meetings</a> with the Taliban at Camp David.&nbsp; Though not actually secret in that Trump sent out a whole series of tweets claiming that Taliban leaders and then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had been slated to arrive over the weekend when were then canceled after Trump and Barada traded demands over a cease-fire.“They probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway,” mocked Trump. “How many more decades are they willing to fight?” A day later, Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/trump-afghanistan.html" target="_blank">declared negotiations with the Taliban “dead.”</a>Four months later, Trump signed a deal with the Taliban. As part of that deal, the U.S. and NATO would withdraw all forces. Trump also asked Pakistan and Afghan officials to release over 5,000 Taliban prisoners. Those former prisoners were among the men who invaded Kabul on Monday. The next president of Afghanistan is likely to be Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.&quot;Mark Sumner</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4967379, member: 54375"] "Just days before the anniversary of 9/11 in 2019, [URL='https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/7/1884137/-Days-before-9-11-anniversary-Trump-announces-and-cancels-secret-Taliban-meeting-at-Camp-David']Trump planned a series of “secret” meetings[/URL] with the Taliban at Camp David. Though not actually secret in that Trump sent out a whole series of tweets claiming that Taliban leaders and then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had been slated to arrive over the weekend when were then canceled after Trump and Barada traded demands over a cease-fire. “They probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway,” mocked Trump. “How many more decades are they willing to fight?” A day later, Trump [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/trump-afghanistan.html']declared negotiations with the Taliban “dead.”[/URL] Four months later, Trump signed a deal with the Taliban. As part of that deal, the U.S. and NATO would withdraw all forces. Trump also asked Pakistan and Afghan officials to release over 5,000 Taliban prisoners. Those former prisoners were among the men who invaded Kabul on Monday. The next president of Afghanistan is likely to be Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar." Mark Sumner [/QUOTE]

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