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Trump’s flimsy Afghan peace bringing efforts to win Nobel Peace Prize
(Last Updated On: April 8, 2020)
An NBC report quoting officials has said, “The impasse in Kabul has frustrated Trump, who has hoped to highlight an Afghanistan peace deal as an example of a 2016 campaign promise he kept when he faces voters this November.”
The report adds, “Before the Coronavirus pandemic became a myopic focus for the president, Trump had privately pushed aides to come up with a high-profile way for him to showcase the deal that could end the war and even mused that it should win him a Nobel Peace Prize.”
According to the report, therefore, the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Kabul with a harsh message from his boss to try to save one of the only major foreign policy achievements – “a peace deal in Afghanistan”, the report writes.
The US president planned to invite some Taliban leaders to Camp David in 2019 – an attempt which was aborted because of the increased attacks of the group killing one US trooper.