President Donald Trump's representative had been in peace talks with the Afghan Taliban for almost a year and shut out Afghan's President from those talks collapsed just one day after leaders of Trump's administration said an agreement was imminent. During those talks the Taliban continued their terror attacks in Afghanistan killing innocent Afghans and U.S. Troops.
After the expected agreement was announced the news media reported Trump secretly invited the Afghan Taliban leader and Afghan's legitimate President to Camp David for talks and a possible end to the war. The invitation to invite the Taliban to Camp David was met with much protest which caused Trump to backtrack and say the meeting was cancelled due to the Taliban's recent attacks in Kabul that killed many, including one U.S. serviceman. The Associated Press reported in a New Orleans Advocate article of 8/30 Trump said the U.S. and the Taliban was close to a deal and would plan to withdraw more than 5000 American troops from Afghanistan. But as of this Tuesday the deal is dead says Trump.
The exclusion of Afghan's President from the peace talks with the Taliban was a disaster in the making and Afghan's President said he would not allow America to decide Afghan's future. Trump's foreign policy disasters have been a result of his ego, lack of understanding foreign policy, the issues and the skill of diplomacy. He has to pass blame on President Obama to justify his own incompetent actions. And just Tuesday, Trump said he fired National Security Advisor John Bolton. (Bolton said he resigned) Bolton was the third NSA to resign or be fired by Trump since he became President. The trumpet man's ego is so large he is incapable of appointing a NSA who has a balanced of foreign policy experience because he thinks he knows more about foreign policy than his advisor, so it becomes a shallow unworkable arraignment that leads to disaster.
And also Tuesday, in another foreign policy flip flop, Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now says Trump would like to meet with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani at the U.N. next week with no preconditions, a reversal of Trump's previous position. Months ago, Trump predicted that Rouhani would be calling Trump for a meeting but now it is Trump who is doing the begging. Rouhani's position has been no talks unless Washington lifted the sanctions against his country.
Iran and Afghanistan Presidents seem to know more about foreign policy than Trump does. Is it any wonder why so many of Trump's appointments, who he calls the best people for the appointed jobs have left the administration in such a short period of time? Every thing this President touches dies because he is so toxic. And that really says it all.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
