'As far as I'm concerned, they are dead.' After calling off a secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David, Pres. Trump declared that Afghanistan peace talks are finished.
"They are dead, they are dead," Trump told reporters on the White House south lawn."As far as I'm concerned, they are dead."
"They thought they had to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better negotiating position," Trump said."When I heard, very simply, that they killed one of our soldiers and 12 other innocent people, I said 'There is no way I'm meeting on that basis. There is no way I’m meeting.' They did a mistake. And by the way they are telling people they made a big mistake. They are saying it loud and clear that they made a big mistake.
"Unfortunately, the war will intensify too, but at the rate the Taliban have been dying they cannot last long," the Afghans said in a statement. The president's invitation to host the Taliban at Camp David, the storied presidential retreat in rural Maryland, was met with criticism by Republicans, Democrats, and reportedly, even some of his own senior advisers. The president decided to host the meeting at Camp David after a session a week ago at the White House with national security advisers, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton, according to an administration official.
"There have been plenty of so-called bad people brought up to Camp David for meetings. And the alternative was the White House and you wouldn’t have been happy with that either," Trump said.
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