Hours after President Trump called off a secret meeting between the US, Afghan leaders, and the Taliban at Camp David, Sec. Pompeo defended the decision to invite Taliban leaders to the US in the first place.
Hours after President Donald Trump called off a secret meeting between the U.S., Afghan leaders, and the Taliban at Camp David, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended the decision to invite Taliban leaders to the U.S. in the first place.
Pompeo responded by saying that while there were"lots of discussions" about the issue,"The president ultimately made the decision that if we could get that, if we could get commitments and then put in place a verification regime that would give us confidence that we could observe that those commitments were being honored, that it was a useful effort to try and get all of those parties in one place so that we could have serious conversations about how to reduce America's risk...
"And we concluded this was a perfectly appropriate place," he added."You know the history of Camp David. Lots of bad folks have come through that place."
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