The president has decided to cancel a secret meeting with Afghan authorities and Taliban officials.
What is the most incongruous?
Invite the Taliban to Camp David on the eve of 9/11? It's shocking as if Mohamed Merah's family was invited to the Crif dinner.
But it is also odd to cancel this secret rendezvous in extremis and to reveal it to the world, indignant that the war continues. It is commonplace for the troops to go on the attack when the emissaries go to the negotiating table.
Donald Trump is unpredictable, that's his strategy. This weekend, he was trumpissime.
He promised to bring the boys back home. But he has so denounced the haste with which Barak Obama has evacuated Iraq, delivering the country to chaos that he can not slam the door of Kabul, claiming mission accomplished.
In nine rounds of negotiations, the Taliban have released very little. They grumble under their breath when the Americans tell them about the status of women, the inter-Afghan dialogue or the fight against terrorism. They wait until the fruit is wall.
Donald Trump wants to prove to them that they are not masters of the calendar. He had done the same with the North Korean.
In revealing the scenes, he imitated Emmanuel Macron bringing an Iranian minister to Biarritz.
He takes to witness the country he is struggling. He gets nothing, but it seems secondary: the show continues.