Posted on 08/15/2021 8:30:45 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Fortunate Son - short (Meme-unition at the end)
https://youtu.be/NNahGwjJa4s
Oh well.
Dems in charge.
REALITY CHECK-——NY Post Miranda Devine asked President Trump Sunday about the plan his administration had to get out of Afghanistan —which ultimately was obstructed by the same US generals who gave Biden a green light.
“We were going to not let people get slaughtered,” Trump said flatly. “I wanted to get out. But you have to get out safely and you have to get out with respect . . .
“We had all sorts of conditions . . . All civilians were going to come out before the military. Everyone should have been out before they took our military out . . .
“I was going to close this ridiculous embassy they spent a billion dollars on and move everybody out . . .
“I was going to blow up every military base [before we left]. I was going to take out every single piece of equipment. I said I don’t want anything left [apart from] leave each soldier a gun . . .
“Plus, I had a relationship with the Taliban where they knew they weren’t allowed to do this. They understood they were going to get hit very hard . . . What I had was conversations with the [Taliban] leadership where I said if you do anything we were going to hit them like they haven’t been hit before.”
Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who began negotiating with the Taliban in February 2020 to lay down conditions for a US withdrawal, has corroborated Trump’s version of events.
Pompeo was in the room when Trump warned the Taliban’s senior negotiator, Mullah Baradar, that if a single American was hurt or threatened the entire wrath of American power would rain down on them.
“We never trusted the Taliban,” he told Fox News Sunday. “We made abundantly clear . . . we weren’t going to allow them to just walk away from any deal that they had struck. We were going to go crush them, we were going to impose real costs on them. We weren’t going to let them take these provincial capitals. They understood that American power was going to come to their village, to their community, to their friends and family.”
You can bet the Taliban believed Trump would make good on his threat. (h/t Miranda Devine NY Post)
“Pompeo was in the room when Trump warned the Taliban’s senior negotiator, Mullah Baradar, that if a single American was hurt or threatened the entire wrath of American power would rain down on them.”
Reminds me of a video where some U.S. soldier is in a village talking with the elders. He is discussing a truce and them working with the USA against the Taliban. He concludes (with tears in his eyes) with something like: “We are here to help you. But if you double-cross us, if anyone of my men are hurt, I will kill you and all of your men. I’m pleading with you - don’t make me do that!”
Although I’m guessing that Trump didn’t have tears in his eyes.
Sad.
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