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I ran Team Trump’s Afghan withdrawal — Biden’s attempt to blame us is just sad
New York Post ^ | August 19, 2021 6:35pm | By Kash Patel

Posted on 08/20/2021 7:52:11 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Trump instructed me to arrange a conditions-based, methodical exit plan that would preserve the national interest. The plan ended up being fairly simple: The Afghan government and the Taliban were both told they would face the full force of the US military if they caused any harm to Americans or American interests in Afghanistan.

Next, both parties would negotiate to create an interim-joint government, and both sides had to repudiate al Qaeda. Lastly, a small special-operations force would be stationed in the country to take direct action against any terrorist threats that arose. When all those conditions were met — along with other cascading conditions — then a withdrawal could, and did, begin.

We successfully executed this plan until Jan. 20, 2021. During this interval — when there were no US casualties in Afghanistan — President Ashraf Ghani and the Taliban conducted multiple rounds of negotiations, and al Qaeda was sidelined. The result was a successful drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan to 2,500, the lowest count since the dawn of the War on Terror.

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 handed our entire plan to the incoming Biden administration during the lengthy transition. The new team simply wasn’t interested.

Everything changed when the new commander in chief declared that US forces would leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, pushing back the Trump administration’s timetable by four months. Crucially, he didn’t condition the withdrawal on continued adherence to the agreed-upon stipulations. It would be an unconditional pullout with an arbitrary date based on pure symbolism — and set in stone.

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To: nuconvert

Which reminds me: Why aren’t all the military leaders and Republican politicians howling like they did over Trump/Syria? Oh, that’s right. Orange Man Bad.

Paging the Cheneys . . .


41 posted on 08/20/2021 8:39:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Not sure of your overall point.
Trump could have screwed things up?
When the reality is biden has screwed EVERYTHING up from day one of his illegitimate Presidency.
Not to mention he has 50 years as a corrupt politician.
It would have been AMAZING if he got ANYTHING right.


42 posted on 08/20/2021 8:40:15 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: rlmorel

He is the same guy.

I am not sure Devin would’ve been so succesful with Operation Medusa if not for Kash.

Kash had worked in the doj and Devin approached him for help.

Kash Patel is completely worthy of respect.
I could not agree with you more.


43 posted on 08/20/2021 8:40:54 AM PDT by katie didit
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To: InterceptPoint

A modicum of research would dispel your bewilderment.


44 posted on 08/20/2021 8:42:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Yardstick

Re: 12 - I wonder if that is Miller doing a bit of “ass covering” when he says a force would be left behind in Afghanistan.

Lots of finger pointing to/from all sides.

What is a “known known” is the current situation is on Biden. If President Trump left a bad agreement in place, that’s Biden’s to remediate. He could exit per the agreement as signed or modify once there is buy-in by all sides.

For me, I think what was negotiated by President Trump, and acted on (in part) by Biden was a bad agreement. The military should have retained a military presence from which to provide counterterrorism operations, a contractor presence for aviation support and training, etc. Handing over OAI was a huge blunder.

The US will be flying blind in Afghanistan. Not a good place to be.


45 posted on 08/20/2021 8:42:37 AM PDT by Fury
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To: InterceptPoint

Re: 38;- Good post.


46 posted on 08/20/2021 8:44:11 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Hojczyk
Next, both parties would negotiate to create an interim-joint government...

Well, that didn't happen - the Afghan government refused to join the negotiations. So much for "conditions based".

47 posted on 08/20/2021 8:44:37 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: Jeff Chandler

A modicum of research would dispel your bewilderment.
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Case A: Trump actually leaves. The Taliban take over. What does Trump do?

Case B. It was just a “play” and Trump had no intention of leaving. (That’s in the article) He effectively cancels the agreement and we stay forever. Or what?


48 posted on 08/20/2021 8:49:14 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: PROCON; Jet Jaguar; Chainmail; archy; xzins; SandRat; HarleyLady27; BlackFemaleArmyColonel; ...

Trump’s withdrawl plan that was ignored - Worth reading.


49 posted on 08/20/2021 8:51:47 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: DoodleDawg

FYI - the UN was monitoring adherence to Doha Agreement. The team doing the monitoring wrote a letter/report in April 28, 2021 reporting that the Taliban had violated the agreement because they allowed members of alQaida to stay in Afghanistan. And you know from reading the agreement, that was forbidden.
SO, Trump wouldn’t have been breaking the agreement, since the Taliban already did.
I think he was betting/assuming when they made the Doha agreement that the Taliban wouldn’t stick to it, and he could do what he wanted at that point. And he was right - they didn’t adhere to the agreement.


50 posted on 08/20/2021 8:56:35 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: DoodleDawg
The Taliban then begins to take over the cities

"the bombing begins in 10 minutes"

51 posted on 08/20/2021 8:59:32 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: nascarnation

Kash Patel was a key member of Devin Nunes’ team uncovering SpyGate.

Guy is absolute money. He then went on to be a key person for President Trump.
Great American and we need more like him.


52 posted on 08/20/2021 9:05:18 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: nuconvert
However, nothing has ever prevented Trump from changing his mind

Violate the agreement he made with the Taliban? How was that going to get us out of Afghanistan?

53 posted on 08/20/2021 9:08:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg ( )
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To: InterceptPoint

Trump doesn’t need to explain anything. Nothing. He is not President due to fraud this current President and his team was wholly complicit in.

I can tell you two things Trump would not have done: He would’t have abandoned Bagram with all its equipment in the middle of the night since other than Kabul, it was the only other place to use to get flights in and out, and he wouldn’t have chosen a date like 9/11/2021 as his target goal for withdrawal.

The question isn’t whether Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban after US withdrawal. That is totally irrelevant if we are pulling out.

The question is the conduct and planning of the pullout.


54 posted on 08/20/2021 9:11:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Please read my post #50


55 posted on 08/20/2021 9:12:25 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: rlmorel

The question is the conduct and planning of the pullout.
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Of course Trump would have managed that better. But that is NOT the only question.

Trump was negotiating with the Taliban for a reorganization of the Afghan government, the exclusion of al Qaeda and a permanent resident Special Forces base.

That was his plan. I just think we need to hear what the contingency plans were if that deal fell through.

If anyone knows the answer to that question they should voice it. To me that plan looked hopeless. And I’m a big Trump fan.


56 posted on 08/20/2021 9:32:16 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Your scenario and question is purely hypothetical. It didn’t happen, so there is no way to know what would happen in that scenario. All we can do is offer our beliefs, and I believe Trump would order bombing of the Taliban long before they began taking over cities/villages. Also, none of our civilians and military equipment would have been left behind for the Taliban to leverage.


57 posted on 08/20/2021 9:37:59 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...)
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To: DoodleDawg

Dude..
Ya gotta read the article...
It says he would have left a small contingent of special forces there to deal with the Taliban or the Afghanistan forces if they got out of line..


58 posted on 08/20/2021 10:13:02 AM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: InterceptPoint
Trump actually leave

Read the text of this article, then get back to me.

59 posted on 08/20/2021 10:51:02 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

From the article:

“ Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller claimed that the Trump administration never intended to completely pull of out Afghanistan.”

Is that true? Do we really know?


60 posted on 08/20/2021 11:10:44 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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