Posted on 08/20/2021 7:52:11 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Ping.
Excellent post.
Reading later.
Biden is the mean dementia patient.
OK so say Trump had won in January, the agreement worked as he described, and Trump had successfully withdrawn all U.S. forces on May 11th as promised. The Taliban then begins to take over the cities, the Afghan army folds like a cheap suit, and Kabul falls within weeks. What does the Trump administration do?
Nailed it!
They would have successfully “done” the withdrawal.
That’s what they would “do”.
If he didn’t leave 6 billion in armament and Americans behind..I’d say,wish them luck?
Very good article, to go along with a bunch of other articles supporting the same,
I don't think they all would have been gone for a while just like in Syria or Iraq and we certainly would not have abandoned the airbase so I don't think it would have played out like this or how you are assuming it would have been the same result.
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I’ll note that these lines aren’t in the actual article but seem to be a formatting glitch: “Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller claimed that the Trump administration never intended to completely pull of out Afghanistan. Ex-Trump official Chris Miller says Taliban deal was a ‘play’ never intended to pull troops”
“We are witnessing the utter collapse of a government — and not just in Afghanistan.”
Didn’t read the article? What President Trump would have done is right in there.
Say “we got our people out, we’re done with this crap hole” and be done with it.
And that's what Biden did. All the U.S. troops left Afghanistan weeks ago. A bit messier than might have happened under Trump but they were all gone around July 1st. So in that respect the withdrawal was 'successful'.
Nah, it's easier to parrot the Democrats on cable news.
The armaments were left to the Afghan Army. Would Trump have taken it all back before we left? And those American left after the withdrawal were there by choice. How to you force them all to leave as well?
This article lays out clearly and in great detail the Trump plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan and how Biden did not follow it. It was published by the NY Post on August 19. I wonder if any other media will even refer to it.
But the agreement Pompeo worked out with the Taliban last year set a May 11 date for all U.S. troops to be out. Absent the Taliban violating it before then I don't see how Trump could have left troops in country after May 11.
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