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2019-09-22 Afghanistan
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Taliban leaders admit they made a big mistake, says Trump
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[KhaamaPress] President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
has said that the Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
leaders have admitted they made a big mistake amid peace talks to end the conflict in Afghanistan.
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Responding to a question regarding his intention to bring peace to Afghanistan, President Trump said "Yeah, well, we were thinking about having a meeting. I didn’t like the idea that they couldn’t produce a ceasefire. I wasn’t in favor of that."
Trump further added " I said, "No. If they can’t produce a ceasefire, then why are we bothering?" And they thought that it was a sign of strength to kill 12 people, wound others ‐ badly wound some others."
He also added "We have hit ‐ in Afghanistan, we have hit the Taliban harder than they’ve ever been hit in the entire 19 years of war. They’ve been hit harder. It’s come back to me through absolutely impeccable sources that they are saying, "Wow. We made a mistake with this guy. We made a big..." They made a mistake."
He made the remarks before bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Morrison of Australia on Friday.
President Trump called off peace talks with Taliban group on 8th of September in reaction to a deadly attack in Kabul city which killed at least 12 people including an American service member.
He was due to meet with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
and Taliban leaders at Camp David before the attack jeopardized the peace efforts.
Based on the above, it looks like peace efforts were totally destroyed because the scorpions of the Taliban will never refrain from stinging. Thank goodness President Trump is clever enough not only to recognize that, but to act.
Tolo News adds: |
US President Donald Trump repeated his jarring statement about quickly ending the war in Afghanistan, using terms similar to those in a July statement that prompted the Afghan government to ask for clarification.
Addressing a news conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday, Trump said the United States could rapidly end the nearly 19-year war in Afghanistan but it would involve killing “tens of millions” of people.
“We’ve been very effective in Afghanistan, and if we wanted to do a certain method of war, we would win that very quickly, but many, many, really, tens of millions of people would be killed, and we think it’s unnecessary,” Trump said.
Similar comments were made by Trump in July during an Oval Office meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. There, Trump claimed he could win the war “in a week” but said he did not want to go that route, because “I just don’t want to kill 10 million people.”
Trump earlier this month called off negotiations with the Taliban, and subsequently said the talks with the group are “dead.” 
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