The Washington Post reports that HR McMaster, a retired general and former national security adviser, has publicly said that Trump�s Afghanistan policy is a travesty, and that his deal with the Taliban is similar to Europe�s appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the Munich agreement of 1938.

McMaster was promoting his new book during an online event hosted Thursday by the Alexander Hamilton Society, a nonprofit foreign policy network, and he told the audience that by making a deal with the Taliban, Trump has now betrayed the mission, undermined US security and undermined the US�s Afghan partners, the Washington Post reported.

By dealing with the Taliban, the US had also cancelled out it�s motivation for the war, McMaster said, saying Trump�s strategy renders the war unjust, because we no longer have defined a just end.

It�s just a travesty, said McMaster. We will pay the price, and we�ll be back. We�ll have to go back, and at a much higher cost.

War is a contest of wills. And we have to have the will ourselves to prevail, McMaster said.

Gabriel Scheinmann, executive director of the Alexander Hamilton Society, asked McMaster: Is this our Munich agreement? Are we pursuing a policy of appeasement with Taliban?

Yes, yes, we are, McMaster said