President Trump is right to want to end America’s military involvement in Afghanistan. It’s gone on way too long at much too high a price and with very little to show for it. And he’s right when he says that in order to end the war there, we have to talk to some pretty awful people. Only with one’s enemies are negotiations for peace necessary.
That said, he seems to have seriously miscalculated the timing and location for what he hoped would be a grand history-making television extravaganza in which he would star. To sit down with the people who are responsible for the worst terrorist attack ever on our country a few days before the 18th anniversary of that terrible day was rather tone-deaf, to say the least. But adding insult to injury, Trump wanted to do this at one of the crown jewels of the American presidency, Camp David.
