Posted on 08/17/2021 11:17:58 AM PDT by fishtank
If you've never seen a TFIGLobal political commentary video, this would be a good intro.
PPS, I don't work for TFIGlobal.
why guess? Pompeo outlined chapter and verse this a.m on Fox - what had been planned, discussed, the whole ball of wax
Can you post that link?
Thanks!
He spelled it out himself beautifully right here. Click down for the full speech transcript.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3985704/posts
Trump demanded out because he knew the military was lying and they were losing the war.
PDJT: “I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable,” he said, noting that if he was still president, he would have focused on a “conditions-based” withdrawal.”
PDJT knew what he was doing, and how to do it.
Trump’s shredding of General Salami last year gives us a keen insight into how he would have handled the Taliban leaders stepping out of line.
Why wasn’t Afghanistan just annex and made into a territory, like Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands?
I think we can do the same with Taiwan and Israel just to screw with the anti-US leftist in Congress.
Here is the URL for your post!
Thanks!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3985704/posts?page=10#10
I would NOT want A-stan to be in the US....
President Trump’s plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan was not perfect and had flaws . I do believe that it would have been better executed as a whole.
A US Territory? You want to be responsible for 39 million third world Muslims? For real? Then what, statehood and a bunch of Taliban in Congress? I’d say this, they’d have a better voting record than most democrats.
i haven’t seen it posted.
Exactly.
Leaving was never the problem... it was HOW Biden left. But I’m sure the Chinese will do their best to make Biden look OK. The Chinese fear Trump - but they know Biden’s a push over.
Third world is being generous. The rarely used term "fourth world" really applies here.
U.S. officials always harbored doubts that Afghan forces could become competent, documents showJack Kem, a retired Army officer who served as Gen. Caldwell’s deputy from 2009 to 2011, said the training command struggled to overcome a host of challenges. Recruiting was hard enough, but was compounded by startling rates of desertion and attrition. And trying to maintain an ethnic balance in the force among Afghanistan’s fractious tribes was another “enormous problem,” he said.
But perhaps the biggest hardship was having to teach virtually every recruit how to read. Kem estimated that only 2 to 5% of Afghan recruits could read at a third-grade level despite efforts by the United States to enroll millions of Afghan children in school over the previous decade.
“The literacy was just insurmountable,” he said in an Army oral-history interview. Some Afghans also had to learn their colors, or had to be taught how to count. “I mean, you’d ask an Afghan soldier how many brothers and sisters they had and they couldn’t tell you it was four. They could tell you their names, but they couldn’t go ‘one, two, three, four.’”
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