Posted on Sep 12, 2019
Trump abruptly canceled Afghan peace talks. What comes next?
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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that talks with Afghanistan's Taliban leaders are off and that he was still considering a US troop drawdown in the country.
"They're dead. They're dead. As far as I'm concerned, they're dead," Trump said of the talks, speaking with reporters as he left the White House for North Carolina.
Months of US negotiations with Taliban militants, who control large parts of Afghanistan, ended on Saturday when Trump abruptly announced he was canceling secret talks at Camp David with the Taliban and the country's president, Ashraf Ghani. The talks were aimed at securing an agreement to pull US troops out after nearly 20 years of war.
A draft accord agreed last week would have seen about 5,000 American troops withdrawn over coming months in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan would not be used as a base for militant attacks on the United States or its allies.
"They're dead. They're dead. As far as I'm concerned, they're dead," Trump said of the talks, speaking with reporters as he left the White House for North Carolina.
Months of US negotiations with Taliban militants, who control large parts of Afghanistan, ended on Saturday when Trump abruptly announced he was canceling secret talks at Camp David with the Taliban and the country's president, Ashraf Ghani. The talks were aimed at securing an agreement to pull US troops out after nearly 20 years of war.
A draft accord agreed last week would have seen about 5,000 American troops withdrawn over coming months in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan would not be used as a base for militant attacks on the United States or its allies.
Trump abruptly canceled Afghan peace talks. What comes next?
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Fortunate Son - Linebacker II - The Gloves Are Off
Linebacker II was an intense, B-52 driven bombing campaign of North Vietnamese rail yards, power plants, ports, radio stations, factories, supply depots, and...
We can do what President Nixon did when the North Vietnamese didn't play ball. We don't have to worry about dozens of B-52's being shot down like what happened North Vietnam. We can use close air support and bombers. President Nixon ordered a whole bunch of squadrons to come back to Thailand and Guam. Granted, the Taliban may be hiding what purpose do you use camouflage to blend in with the local population.
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LTC (Join to see)
Set to the song "Bodies" by Drowning Pool, and featuring the lyrics "Let the bodies hit the floor". The video was made back in October of 2001 when the war i...
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Afghanistan had 18 years to prepare, but they have a shitty government, military, and the people are caught in the middle. The Soviets conducted total war and killed 2 million Afghans but still lost the war.
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More discussion and talks... personally I don’t believe you can negotiate with these people, they play the long game of 100 plus years. That’s one serious fault in our society: we can’t look past the next news cycle.
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