President Trump let the Taliban know if they so much as touched a US person or US affiliate in the wrong way, they would pay with hell fire raining down on them. The Taliban knew he meant business so they stood down. They weren’t going to mess with Afghanistan while Trump was President.
In 2020, there was not one, NOT ONE, firefight involving Taliban in Afghanistan.
And that is entirely to the credit of President Trump.
Trump did more than any president to end the conflict and deserves credit.
I do believe there would have been an orderly and phased withdrawal if he was still president.
Obama was far more hawkish (remember the “SURGE”?) and Afghanistan “the good war”.
He was a very useful puppet for the military industrial complex as he put anti-war liberals to sleep.
Except that isn't true at all. That is a disservice to not remember the fallen. We lost several men in early 2020 to the rags.