Doyle McManus: Trump's foreign policy has produced a string of failures
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 11, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The strangest thing about President Trump's aborted plan to fly the Taliban to Camp David wasn't the terrible symbolism of hosting terrorists three days before the anniversary of 9/11 - although that was bad enough.
Even crazier was Trump's underlying premise: that he could sweet-talk Taliban leaders to end the war in Afghanistan by luring them to a weekend in the bucolic Maryland countryside.
But Trump doesn't understand diplomacy. It's not about splashy deals and self-aggrandizing stunts; it's about nurturing alliances and building relationships. It's not
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