In comments to reporters, President Trump announced on Monday that the Afghan peace talks and entire process is “dead.” He claimed the Taliban had been telling everyone that they’d made a “big mistake” in crossing him.
Trump announced that he was scrapping the process on Saturday, citing
the death of a US soldier in a car bombing last week. Though other
officials claimed there were a lot of factors in play, Trump continued
to insist it was just that soldier.
With peace no longer on the table, US officials are now back to claiming
the war is going better than anyone realized, with Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo claiming the US had killed over 1,000 Taliban in just the
last 10 days.
Trump claimed the US is hitting the Taliban harder than at any time in
the last 10 years. It’s not clear what the end-game of all of this is,
as previously the idea was to get the situation to a position where the
US could negotiate a deal to end the way.
Now, the deal is wholly negotiated, and all but signed, but also dead.
This means it’s not clear at all what the US is going for, beyond
continuing the war so President Trump can brag about how big of a
mistake the Taliban made.
Time for the Afghan freedom fighters to gear up, kick out the evil empire, and win this thing already. It’s been long enough.
New game, US air power and surveillance makes it expensive to gather overwhelming force. US technology is murderous.
Then the freedom fighters’ only option is to make it so expensive in both money and blood to stay that even Lindsay Graham is compelled to think it might be a good idea to get out.
Trump is a joke.
Dead baby joke…..
1914 style exit looks more and more likely with each passing day. The Vietnam Syndrome is going to pale in comparison.
Trump doesn’t like that an American soldier stationed in Afghanistan is killed, so he kills the peace process which will allow at least a few American soldiers to leave and therefore not be killed in Afghanistan. Check.
And yes, of course Trump is hitting the Taliban harder than at any point in the last 10 years. Everything must be the superlative with him – the most, the best, the greatest the world has ever seen, like no time ever before in history, blah blah blah. He’s a 2 AM infomercial host selling Plexi-Seal.
The best , the greatest , the most the world has ever seen.
Does this not remind you of Adie Amin?
Not really, the bragging by Trump reminds me of your typical American. USA, UsA!!!
Idi Amin.
“He claimed the Taliban had been telling everyone that they’d made a “big mistake” in crossing him.”
Sorry Donald, the Taliban has not told me.
What a goddamn clown …
And his base are children watching cartoons. This entire episode was scripted.
“This entire episode was scripted.”
Exactly.
“Lie, cheat, and steal.”-Mike Pompeo
Do you suppose that Pompeo and Bolto are misinformed about the level of violence against American troops?