Donald Trump should stop barring peace in Afghanistan
Firing national security adviser John Bolton after cancelling summit at Camp David with Afghan and Taliban leaders compounds the impression of disarray as theatrics backfire
11 September 2019 - 09:55
President Donald Trump is right that it’s time for the US to end its longest war. He needs to stop making this harder.
The president cancelled at the weekend a summit at Camp David with Afghan and Taliban leaders that was meant to finalise a peace deal. He had little choice. The decision followed an attack in Kabul that killed a US soldier. Welcoming Taliban officials to the US just a few days later would have been wrong...
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