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billh58
(6,655 posts)50. Trump & the Taliban - 2020
Why Trump cut the deal
When Trump came into office, he was pretty transparent — he just wanted out of Afghanistan. “Trump had no real sense of what was at stake in the war or why to stay,” writes Georgetown professor Paul Miller in a digestible history of the 20-year war.
So Trump took a swing at something his predecessors hadn’t: a full-bore effort to strike a deal with the Taliban. It took nine rounds of talks over 18 months. At one point, Trump secretly invited the Taliban to the presidential retreat at Camp David on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But he shut that down — and on Twitter threatened to shut down all talks — after an American service member was killed and there was bipartisan backlash over the invitation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20/trump-peace-deal-taliban/
So Trump took a swing at something his predecessors hadn’t: a full-bore effort to strike a deal with the Taliban. It took nine rounds of talks over 18 months. At one point, Trump secretly invited the Taliban to the presidential retreat at Camp David on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But he shut that down — and on Twitter threatened to shut down all talks — after an American service member was killed and there was bipartisan backlash over the invitation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20/trump-peace-deal-taliban/
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kelly1mm
Oct 2023
#6
The D's not cutting some type of deal to empower SOME R to be speaker (or convincing
kelly1mm
Oct 2023
#20
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kelly1mm
Oct 2023
#27
That would work too! Time for a little 'red flu'?? The only problem is the speaker would
kelly1mm
Oct 2023
#29
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Sky Jewels
Oct 2023
#8
Democrats have to start complaining that Republicans have been blocking Jeffries from being elected
world wide wally
Oct 2023
#44
Republicans are dangerous idiots who cannot legislate, nor lead, nor constructively engage in governance of any kind.
Ford_Prefect
Oct 2023
#19
Exactly. This is what reporters should ask every repub that tries to pass the buck
onenote
Oct 2023
#26