Well that didn't take long. Demonstrating that the utter ineptitude of con man Donald "Rump" Trump is replicated throughout his administration, just one day after the U.S. and the Taliban signed off on a plan for further negotiations, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has rejected a key provision: the release of 5,000 hardcore Taliban prisoners in a prisoner exchange, a scary prospect to contemplate. The release of prisoners on both sides of the years -long conflict was supposed to be a "confidence builder" for further negotiations. But it looks like Trump's team forgot to coordinate with the freaking Afghan Government:
"On the issue of the prisoner swap, Ghani said, 'It is not in the authority of United States to decide, they are only a facilitator.'It appears that in his rush to get a much-needed, if fake, photo-op win, Dear Leader put his campaign and the Taliban's interests before the Afghan peoples' and ours. Who could have imagined?
Ghani told CNN on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump had not asked for the release of the prisoners and that the issue of prisoner releases should be discussed as part of a comprehensive peace deal.
'The political consensus ... that would be needed for such a major step does not exist today,' Ghani said.
Ghani said key issues need to be discussed first including the Taliban’s ties with Pakistan and other countries that had offered it sanctuary, its ties with what he called terrorist groups and drug cartels, and the place of Afghan security forces and its civil administration."
