CNN: Trump overruled advisers, VP on Taliban Camp David meeting
The pine-shaded cabins at Camp David have hosted secret peace summits between Middle Eastern leaders and high-stakes gatherings of major heads of state. For President Donald Trump, the mountainside retreat offered visions of another diplomatic coup: clandestine talks between US, Afghan and Taliban officials that could end America's longest war.
Even opposition from within his own national security team, including Vice President Mike Pence, could not deter Trump from pressing forward with his plan to host Taliban leaders at the rural presidential getaway.
Trump eventually scrapped the event after a Taliban car bomb killed a US soldier and 11 others last week. But that decision came after heated debate within the administration over the venue for the summit -- an outgrowth of larger, more substantial disagreements over the wisdom of negotiating with the Taliban at all.
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WNU Editor: A U.S. - Taliban agreement on a U.S military withdrawal from Afghanistan is definitely not going to happen now. I am sure the overall peace process will continue, but I will be surprised if anything will be decided until after next year's U.S. Presidential election.
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