“President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to American troops here on Thursday, and said that he has restarted peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after he scuttled talks with the group,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them.”
He added: “We’re going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory, and they want to make to make a deal very badly.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.