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'No power to negotiate'? Trump cancels Afghan talks after Taliban attack for decades more war?

RT
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 23:01 UTC

The blast in Kabul that killed a dozen of people, including an American soldier, shows that there is no point in negotiating with the Taliban who can't even uphold a ceasefire during important talks, President Trump has claimed.

"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," Trump said in a tweet, announcing his decision to call off peace negotiations and cancel the meeting with the Taliban leaders scheduled for Sunday at Camp David.

How many more decades are they willing to fight?

Taliban currently controls more territory than ever since the US invasion, having launched fresh assaults in the north. It also took responsibility for two major blasts in the capital Kabul over the past week, one of which killed 12 and claimed the life of a Puerto Rican-American soldier, bringing the number of US troops killed in Afghanistan to 16 this year alone.

While many praised the US leader for his refusal to 'negotiate with the terrorists', some of Trump's followers called him out over Washington's own history of not standing by any 'meaningful agreements', while others emphasized that the nearly two decades of fighting and American blood spilling in Afghanistan was already more than enough.

At the same time, many seemed sincerely shocked that the president even considered holding "secret talks" with the Taliban just ahead of the anniversary of 9/11 attacks which the US had used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan and the perpetual war on terror ever since.

Puzzled by what Trump's plan might be, his Twitter followers argued whether he wants to use the cancelled talks as a pretext to stay - or on the contrary to pull out of Afghanistan entirely, and leave the weakened government in Kabul to sort out the mess on its own.

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ny7fmlqt · 2019-09-08T20:34:10Z

There is no need for a peace treaty to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

Besides. Is US in war with Afghanistan. Where is the decision by congress that is needed for war by the constitution?

ClintWestwood · 2019-09-08T22:13:41Z

Why so sure it was the Taliban? Could have easily been the CIA as well. They are determined not to give up their poppy fields and heroin plants.

cope2 · 2019-09-09T13:16:43Z

ClintWestwood My question, too.I remember a story from Vltchec, of the first carbombing on the hotel where journalists were staying in Kabul, when the negotiations had just started. They thought it was Isis.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-09-09T16:44:54Z

ClintWestwood Re: "Why so sure it was the Taliban? Could have easily been the CIA as well." Even moreso since the 'differences' between ISIS/IL/ Team-ILL / 'Al Quaeda' / The Taliban / CIA are all provided by their creators at the CIA. Those 'differences' are breathlessly whispered as "secret MSNBCNNBBCBS exclusive" (video of a shadowed man* behind a translucent shower door "Intel insider says....(verbaitm draft by CIA) read as 'news".

R.C.

*There's a good CIA job if you can get it.....Playing the guy behind the shower screen while someone reads your alleged words.

P.s., re: The CIA "are determined not to give up their poppy fields" I likewise agree.

But as to The CIA are determined not to give up thei their "heroin plants"? - i f they're growing those, why bother with the poppies?

So I did some research and Google only allowed me to go to wee wee pee pee aaahhh which says:

Plantus Heroinus. This genetically modified shrub represents an ever increasing proportion of world heroin sales. It is a biannual.

As it grows, at around 3 feet, it begins dispensing clear little biodegradeable and watertight "balloons" of 5% to 40% heroin with 95 to 60% of mannitol, coffee creamer or similar. At six feet, it produces similarly wrapped ounces of 80% pure heroin;

At 10 feet they put out fully fruited bodies of watertight kilos, which hang like ripe fruit over the CIA's mercenary'soldiers' heads..

Jesting and jest having some fun.

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-09-09T01:20:03Z

Another SOTT Say Wha?? (TM) headline: "'No power to negotiate'? Trump cancels Afghan talks after Taliban attack for decades more war?"

Original RT Headline: ‘No power to negotiate’? Trump scraps Afghan talks after Taliban attack, hints at ‘decades’ more war. R.C.

ClintWestwood · 2019-09-09T02:44:40Z

Rowan Cocoan "Decades more defeat." No one subdues Afghanistan. US warmongers need to pick up a history book.

ClintWestwood · 2019-09-09T17:11:43Z

Rowan Cocoan Plants--production plants, that is. They take the gum from the poppies and send it raw to their heroin production plants in the south of France and Colombia. (Pre-Castro, they had numerous plants for production in Cuba, too.)

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-09-09T18:13:40Z

ClintWestwood

CW: I read that and when I saw it was you, I figured you almost certainly meant 'plants' as in 'production facilities'. On top of that, even if it wasn't you, the post alone showed erudite cluefulness, so even if it was a name I didn't know, the simple fact they'd be posting that post here would mean odds of way better than 95% they meant production facilities. (Otherwise, why would the CIA care about one but not the other? After all, there'd be no economic gain to have to fly out raw opium when its weight is reduced to one tenth or less when converted to heroin. [ Link ] I’d likewise guess that its density decreases its space occupied by another 50% on top of that. But the opportunity for a chuckle remained. And I always enjoy a stab at google and wee wee pee pee ahh.)

If, on the other hand, that was some typical prole post at MSM dot com, etc., maybe it’d be a 50/50 shot and that erring half would be 'ripe for pickin'.

As above, there are too few 'opportunities’ for a chuckle these days. I hope I made clear the joke wasn't 'on you' but was having fun and letting some junkie’s imagination take off on the 'opportune turn of a phrase.'

I apologize if you deem such appropriate. ( I try to always say what I mean and mean what I say.) And as I type that mantra, I believe I should have noted that - beyond 'jesting' - that I was being facetious, also. So I do apologize.

With Honest Respect,

R.C.

Taiwan is still bumping like crazy though today.

LindaMay

That must have relieved some pressure.

LindaMay

THOSE idiots!! What a crazy bunch we have!

LindaMay

Excellent comments here. Thanks, guys!

ReRan

It appears this article brought out the meeting of the minds... Kudo's all.

VonCraq

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