Editorial: Inviting the Taliban to Camp David was a mistake. Suspending talks altogether is a bigger one
It's probably good news that President Donald Trump smothered his over-the-top-as-usual plan for a summit meeting with the Taliban and the president of Afghanistan at the presidential retreat in Camp David. The seeming assumption behind it - that Trump the brilliant dealmaker could get the antagonists to come to terms in a dramatic denouement - was flawed from the start.
But in revealing on Twitter that he had considered
