During an appearance on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Ghani told host Fareed Zakaria that he was critical of excluding the Afghan government from the initial talks. Ghani declined to say whether he felt betrayed by the US, but when Zakaria asked: “Do you think Trump’s deal with the Taliban was a disaster?” Ghani replied, “It was,” adding that he believed the Afghan-led part of the process was “served.” “We are locked out of the peace table and the peace process has been incredibly flawed. The Taliban were supposed to have changed — they were delusional,” he added. “The process violates everything that—from Acheson and Marshall to Kissinger and Baker, in terms of preparation, organization, we never got to discussions. Everything was foreplay.” Ghani also told Zakaria that Trump initially said his strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia would be a deal based on conditions. “This deal had to be conditional. But none of the basic conditions were met alone. The government, our partner, the United States government became the enforcer of the Taliban agreement against us, threatening us with a cutoff of aid, with every possible form of pressure to release 5,000 of the most hardened criminals, etc.” Gani said to Zakaria. Ghani’s remarks come nearly a year after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was ultimately carried out by the Biden administration. The troop withdrawal led to the Taliban regaining full control of the country, forcing thousands of Afghan civilians to flee the country in fear. The country is plagued by high unemployment rates, increasing food insecurity and setbacks for women seeking education. FBI, DHS warn of increase in threats to federal law enforcement officials after Mar-a-Lago probe: reports Trump seeks return of privileged documents allegedly seized at Mar-a-Lago Ghani, who fled the country amid the chaos, told Zakaria that he hopes to return to Afghanistan in the near future. “I want to be able to help my country heal,” Ghani said. “And I hope I can do it from the place where every cell in my body belongs and without which I always feel like a stranger.” Updated at 6:16 p.m