freedoms such as music and sports, which were banned under the Taliban rule. (20) On September 7, 2019, President Donald J. Trump revealed in a series of tweets that he had invited major Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to meet with him separately at Camp David on the following day. He wrote that, because a Taliban attack killed several people, including a United States soldier, in Kabul on September 5, 2019, he had immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. (21) The Afghan constitution provides the people of Afghanistan the ability to directly elect their President and Members of Parliament. The constitution protects human rights and has resulted in gains for women, minorities, independent press and media, and democratic governance since the Taliban were removed from power in 2001. 4. Sense of Congress on United States policy It is the sense of Congress that— (1) it is in the vital national security interests of the United States that Afghanistan never again serves as a platform or sanctuary for terrorist attacks against the United States, our allies, or partners