The Afghan government called on Tuesday for clarification of US President Donald Trump’s remarks that he could win the Afghan war in just 10 days by “wiping out Afghanistan from the face of the earth”, the presidential palace in Kabul said.
Trump’s remarks followed a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House on Monday.
He voiced optimism that Pakistan could help broker a political settlement to end the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan.
“The Afghan nation has not and will never allow any foreign power to determine its fate,” Kabul presidential palace said in a statement.
Trump Says He “Could Win Afghanistan War in 10 Days”
US President Donald Trump is seeking help from Pakistan to extricate Washington from the war in Afghanistan, saying that he could “win” that war in a week if he wanted to kill millions and wipe off the country.
“I could win that war in a week,” Trump claimed on Monday, as he met with Pakistani PM Imran Khan at the White House. “Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth… literally in 10 days.”
“I don’t want to go that route,” Trump added. “I don’t want to kill 10 million people.”
Instead, Trump claimed that Pakistan will help “extricate” the US from the long war in Afghanistan the previous administrations have got entangled in.
“We’ve been there for 19 years, and we’ve acted as policemen, not soldiers,” Trump said, adding he has been withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan solution.”
“This is the closest we’ve been to a peace deal,” Khan added, hoping that in the coming weeks the Afghan government would agree to direct talks with the Taliban.
Meanwhile, US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has been holding talks with the Taliban for months, reaching an “agreement on principle” in January on withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, but with many issues still left unresolved.
“It’s clear all sides want to end the war,” Khalilzad said at the time.
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