Posted on 02/24/2021 7:52:54 PM PST by RandFan
WASHINGTON — The new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Wednesday that the Biden administration should not withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan to meet a May 1 deadline negotiated by the Trump administration and the Taliban.
Instead, said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who took control of the panel this month, the United States should seek an extension of the deadline to give diplomats more time to negotiate an agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
“To pull out within several months now is a very challenging and destabilizing effort,” Mr. Reed told reporters on a video conference call organized by George Washington University.
Mr. Reed, a former 82nd Airborne Division officer who has visited Afghanistan 18 times as a lawmaker in the past two decades, added his voice to a growing number of national security specialists, including those on a bipartisan, congressionally appointed panel, who argue, in essence, for abandoning the May 1 timetable. They say that the Taliban have not met the conditions for a U.S. withdrawal as set by the Trump-Taliban agreement last February.
“I would expect some extension,” Mr. Reed said, even if that ultimately meant more time for the United States to withdraw the 2,500 troops in the country now.
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Screw the pro-War Democrats and Joe Biden.
Well done progressives!
I’m old enough to remember when Democrats were an anti-war party.
*** Screw the pro-War Democrats and Joe Biden. ***
It’s not just Democrats who are Pro war.
Then they engaged in decades of insider trading. At least those in Congress did.
Salt the Poppy fields, level the ammo dump/Mosques/Madrassas and abandon the effort.
Smite the Paki forces along the Afghani border on the way out.
I mean yeah really! Wars in the past lasted four years or so. At least the important ones did. We need to put at least as much effort into this thing. What? This war is almost 20 years old, with no sign of ending? Hey, I’m outta here, Joe.
I think Biden has supported every military intervention over the last 40 years as a senator and VP ...
That’s quite a record.
HASTY???
Who is making money from our endless occupation. That’s the question.
lol wut?
Promise a thorough Nuking from Space if any problems arise in the Future.
“United States should seek an extension of the deadline to give diplomats more time to negotiate an agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government.”
The Taliban holds all the cards and they know it. How does it go when the used car dealer knows you have bad credit and you are -desperate- for a car?
Another DC Harvard/Army ringknocker simpleton.
We should have been there two weeks.
I don’t give a hoot if the worship Allah or a tree, or if ther daughters go to school. It’s not my business.
Bring them home now.
The “peace movement” might be the most fake thing of all time.
“Who is making money from our endless occupation. That’s the question.”
Good question. We should have left that craphole of a country at least 19 1/2 years ago!
Afghanistan is probably one of the only places that is so uncivilized that it should be nuked for posterity.
Should have Senator Reid locate there and then see how fast he relocates his sorry butt.
“Jack Reed”
Illicit drug market. DEA banks, pols get a cut from the cartels.
I can’t believe Rhode Island even gets senators. Tiny state with a big mouth
Both parties are pro-war now, endless war. They both need to go.
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