A Historic Peace Plan Collapses

<p>President Trump abruptly called off negotiations between the United States and the Taliban that could have ended the war in Afghanistan and canceled a secret meeting at Camp David. We look at how a historic peace deal went off the rails. Guest: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. </p><p>Background reading:</p><ul><li>The United States and the Taliban, after nine rounds of painstaking negotiations in Doha, Qatar, appeared to have ironed out most of the issues between them. But President Trump<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/asia/afghanistan-trump-camp-david-taliban.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank"> canceled a secret meeting at Camp David and called off the talks</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/world/asia/taliban-talks-afghanistan-trump.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">What jarred many Afghans</a> was how a single attack and the death of one American, cited by Mr. Trump, could upend 10 months of negotiations. </li></ul>