Negotiation with the taliban is over, because, Stumpie said, they had
killed an American when they killed several other people during a
bombing in Afghanistan.

But in his same set of words, he said that the US had killed 100
Taliban** in the last 10 days. How did he expect to kill 100 of them
without their cancelling the talks, but he would do so for one death?

**or was it 1000?