president says the talks with the afghan taliban are dead, was it ever a ldod idea to ho talks with the talan at camp david? ryan: to hold talks with e taliban at camp david under current conditions would have been a horrible m. to bring in people whoen are ged right now in the murder of afghan civilians, men, women, and children, the killing of our troops and afghan security forces, with noease-fire, that would have been about as bad as it could get. laura: as a former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, would you trust the taliban when they say, as ty apparently did it to u.s. officials, that they would cut ties with al qaeda in return for u.s. troop drawdown? ryan: this has been flawed from thwevery beginning. made a huge concession at the start by agreeing to t the taliban n baout the governme of afghanistan president. thatad been at taliban demand for years. we resisted it for years, and then we cepted it. the signal weaid was basically the same signal we sent in t i 1970'sn paris about vietnam, we're done, we are leaving. you can lk about the modalities, buwe are just done here. i think they were off to