been managing this properly and, you know, i don t think that the parents of the next solder killed in action are going to care whether or not the president wanted to have it at camp david or wherever. they want their soldier home safe and sound and peace in this region. that s our real mission there. sandra: whether or not he made the right call in canceling the meeting and the fact he was having it at camp david became another issue. petraeus was asked about that. would you recommend a camp david meeting by the way? the symbolism of that would have been a bit troubling. that s where the decision was made to invade taliban in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. i think as you reflect on that certainly again i think the president very much made the right call.
but he still is supporting the ultimate goal of bringing u.s. forces home from afghanistan. really there are only two ways to do that. either win a decisive victory over the taliban on the battlefield which will not happen under the current strategy or sign a peace deal with them. the president said in recent days the u.s. and taliban were close to an agreement. the meeting at camp david was to drag it across the finish line and bring in the afghan government. claiming responsibility for the suicide bombing by the taliban that killed an american solder was too much for the weekend. what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? they only made it worse. if they can t agree to a cease-fire and would even kill 12 innocent people they probably don t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. how many decades are they willing to fight? after the president canceled the camp david meeting the taliban indicated they re willing
we made real progress but in the end the taliban overreached. it doesn t make sense to me. another example of the president treating foreign policy like it is some kind of game show. this isn t a game show. these are terrorists. i ve been concerned we were negotiating with the taliban and not including the afghan government in that. and even the idea that you could negotiate with the taliban, the problems with that have been very evident. i would say that all wars eventually come to an end and i salute efforts to try to end that war no doubt. bill: benjamin hall picks it up there from london today. hello. hi, bill. there we are a year of painstaking negotiations with the taliban to try to reach some kind of peace deal really now seems to be in tatters after the taliban admitted responsibility for the attack which left a u.s. solder dead last week. on saturday as the body of the sergeant was flown back to the u.s. he is the fourth u.s.
that will wrap it up from new york city. go to fox nation for the after the show show . you ll have a choice, fox nation for radio or for you guys. bill: all right. good morning, everybody. the taliban threatening more violence after president trump cancels peace talks over the weekend. where does it leave his effort to end america s longest war? we have a packed three hours for you and welcome. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. heather: i m heather childress in for sandra smith. the white house called off the planned secret meeting with the taliban after a suicide bombing killed an american solder and at least 10 other people. this happened in kabul last week. as democrats and even some republicans slammed the decision to invite taliban leaders to camp david for talks just days before september 11th. bill: the secretary of state mike pompeo on fox news sunday .
this makes it sound like i have a son who is in the military, overseas. he wasn t married at the time. if he had a kid overthere makes it sound like that child won t be a u.s. citizen. and jon, you said it very accurately. it makes it sound like. that s what nancy pelosi has been doing with all the propaganda saying that it is an attack on our citizens, an attack on our military. and it is not. they re following the law and the director has made it clear. the perfect example is if you re a solder overseas and marry a woman who has a child. that child needs to establish residency in the united states afterwards. it s in no way, shape or form according to the white house going to block anyone from becoming a citizen. they just have to establish residency like the state department and do it in the right way. jon: a tweet from the director. he writes the policy manual update doesn t impact who is