U.S. officials hold meetings with the Taliban

U.S. officials and senior Taliban representatives held their second day of talks in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday. CBS news senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer joined Lana Zak on CBSN to discuss the agenda of the meetings.

[scipioafricanus]

I guess "we don't negotiate with terrorists" is no longer a thing.

[Brandon-vsxi]

This entire situation feels like a South Park episode except it's real life.

[ricco]

The American people would like to get theirs hands on that 7 billion dollars...we’ll just consider it a refund on some of those helicopters, weapons and trucks.

[pnutable]

"Hey, give us our weapons back!"
"No."
"Understandable, have a nice day."

[Kingfisher]

The Taliban likes all the free weapons, now they need some instructions on how to operate them. And here, we all thought build back better referred to the US, not the Taliban military.

[thepirate]

Raise the debt limit so we can pay the

[thepostman]

Oh great, giving them legitimacy. Just what the world needs in 2021.

[AStout-tfej]

Absolute embarrassing failure of administration. Independent voter here.

[chriscorbin]

In my 65 years I have never seen a president do so many stupid things in such a short period of time. God help us.

[logicgates]

This conversation, in every aspect, is truly unbelievable.

[paul]

So are we giving them my tax money? Maybe we should not pay taxes

[phillhuddleston]

Aren't you supposed to have meetings with the enemy before giving them billions of dollars worth of state of the art weaponry and giving them full control of the country you were fighting them in?

[jgg]

The Taliban can just sell some weapons on Craigslist.

[geniuspharmacist]

Brandon should go there and do the negotiation himself.

[Chthonian]

2001: "We don't negotiate with terrorists"
2021: "So we just had a great conversation with the terrorists and things are going well!"

[salinacarter]

Seriously? Just when you think it couldn't get any more...contradickery

[dw]

The Tolly-Bahn reportedly chanted *"LET'S GO, BRANDON!"* upon arrival of U.S. officials.

[johnwayne]

Do you like the gifts we left you? Oh and here's 10 Billion Congress just passed in the current Budget Bill for you!!

[harrisb]

As a veteran I couldn't have ever imagined this day.

[motorolaandroid]

Stomach churning to watch Taliban in US military gear and vehicles... It's a travesty