While on Saturday President Trump announced the cancellation of the
entire Afghanistan peace process and suggested it was wholly a reaction
to a single suicide car bomb, other officials are now trying to rebrand what actually happened to make it less of a hasty decision to abandon months of progress.
They are now arguing that the US and Taliban had “deep disagreements” on
several issues, though what few issues they named, like timing of
announcing the deal, all seemed minor, and every major issue had
already been resolved.
This raises the possibility that the end of the peace process was a
Trump whim, or perhaps more likely that the administration believed some
of the terms of the deal would be unpopular, and subsequently backed
out at the last possible minute.
The merits of backing out at such a late date are dubious, however. With
a virtually finished deal in hand, the US has effectively chosen to
recommit to a losing war indefinitely, while knowing that ultimately
they’ll have to settle for a deal remarkably similar to what they could
have right now.
“This raises the possibility that the end of the peace process was a Trump whim”
This can’t possibly be true. After nearly three years of nothing but well thought out straight forward actions by this compassionate principled man of peace and liberty, how could anyone accuse him of doing anything on a whim?
There remain the questions of “why Camp David” and “why secret?” Neither were necessary. My short answer is: President Carter.
Give it maybe six months to a year maybe and they’ll be forced back to the negotiating table with the Taliban. I’m sure Trump will use such opportunity as a photo op for reelection regardless how successful it’ll actually be.
In other words, obviously the real reason is being kept secret because it can’t be publicly acknowledged – which means, of course, how will we keep getting the heroin out if the Taliban are in charge? Since the Deep State owns Trump, what else was he going to do but go along?