Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2019
....an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? They didn’t, they....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2019
....only made it worse! If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. How many more decades are they willing to fight?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2019
But seriously, that last line is so pathetically clueless any chance of another Camp David accord (all of Trump's touchstones to history are at least 40 years old), which you know he was going for, is obviously dead as a dodo. The answer to that pathetic question is: far longer than we are.
It's their country, after all. How many more Americans have to die to avenge 9/11?
At least he didn't threaten to kill millions in a few weeks again, huh? The Art of the Deal, by the way, is to tell the other side exactly what you're thinking at all times.
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