Steve Doocy reported that, just hours after it was announced that the U.S. would engage in talks with the Taliban, fighters loyal to the organization claimed responsibility for an attack in Afghanistan which claimed the lives of four Americans.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reportedly frustrated by President Barack Obama‘s decision to hold talks with the Taliban. Obama was asked about Karzai’s frustrations at a press conference in Germany on Wednesday, but Gretchen Carlson said that his answer was “convoluted.”
“This is embarrassing,” Brian Kilmeade exclaimed. “The first question that he gets at a press conference shows that yesterday’s message was totally wrong.”
“The other
Kilmeade recalled that the Taliban ran a repressive government when they were in power in which oppressed women and supported Al Qaeda.
He ran down a list of ways in which the Taliban oppress women, including whipping women with exposed ankles, not allowing girls to attend school, and stoning women accused of having a relationship with men outside their marriage.
Finally, Doocy said that it was unlikely that the Taliban would even observe a negotiated settlement to the Afghan conflict because representatives for the insurgency are rejecting the notion of a cease fire while negotiations with the U.S. are ongoing.
“That’s what you get when you deal with terrorists,” Doocy concluded.
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