...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
on Monday said that US peace talks with the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...are over and announced that the US military has dramatically scaled up attacks on the gunnies in Afghanistan.
"They are dead. As far as I am concerned, they are dead," Trump said at the White House about the long-running attempt to reach an agreement with the Taliban and extricate US troops from the country after 18 years of war.
The announcement followed Trump's dramatic cancelation of a secret plan to fly Taliban leaders in for direct talks at the Camp David presidential retreat over the weekend.
Driving another nail into the coffin of what had appeared to be nearly completed negotiations, Trump said that a US military onslaught on the guerrillas was now at its fiercest in a decade.
"Over the last four days, we have been hitting our enemy harder than at any time in the last ten years!" he said in a tweet.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that "we've killed over a thousand Taliban in just the last 10 days."
| Goodness. Kudos all around, including to the Taliban for waiting like sitting ducks. |
Until this weekend, there had been steadily mounting expectations of a deal that would see the US draw down troop levels in Afghanistan. In return, the Taliban would offer security guarantees to keep Death Eater groups out.