When the commotion over Donald Trump’s aborted meeting with the Taliban dies down, and his chief negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad has been recalled to Washington, diplomats will be asking: what next for his Afghanistan strategy?
The US president’s three bombshell tweets appeared to slam the door on a protracted negotiation process which has taken in nine rounds of talks over more than a year.
After a Taliban bomb had killed an American soldier in Kabul on September 5, he said he had immediately cancelled a Camp David meeting with the insurgents and “called off peace negotiations”.
The death of the US soldier may have been the real reason, or a pretext after he had second thoughts about a pact facing…
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