Posted on 08/27/2021 11:23:58 AM PDT by Hojczyk
We were clear with the Taliban that we had this understanding--but you were going to live up to it. And we had a conditions-based withdrawal plan and we executed that. We were down from about 15,000 to a little over 2,500. And for the last 13 months of our administration, we didn't have a single American attacked or a single American killed.
It wasn't because of the piece of paper, that was the set of understandings. It was because the Taliban understood that if they acted against Americans and took on actions that were inconsistent with what they had promised to do, we'd respond and we did. We did it multiple times. When they pushed on us and the Trump administration, we responded with American power and American might, and we made clear to the Taliban that deterrence was going to be maintained. The difference was when the Biden administration came in, when the Taliban pushed, they withdrew. They showed weakness. The Taliban rolled it up. They put our military in an incredibly difficult position because they weren't prepared to defend the conditions and then decided to withdraw when the conditions weren't right.
President Trump wanted to get all of our folks out. No one disputes that the right thing to do was to get these folks home. But we never found the conditions right to execute what President Biden chose to do. President Trump wanted everyone out from January of 2017. We never found the conditions right to be able to do that. So we withdrew from 15,000 to about 8,600 then to about 4,500, each time along the way thoughtfully making sure that we understood that we had deterrence maintained, that we had an order that we could protect Americans. And we did so every single day.
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You won’t see this on abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, NYT or WP.
The difference between adults running the government and children running the government.
Poor headline wording
The false equivalence the leftists are trying to draw is pathetic. It's like saying "Well, both Trump and xiden wanted to drive a bus to the same destination, therefore despite the fact that the latter drove like a drunken monkey and ran it off a cliff is somehow Trump's fault."
It was an amazing hour (not all of it with Trump)--no commercial breaks.
Understandable since that’s all that (D)’s can do - blame others for their own ineptitude.
I take this to mean that the neo-cons in Congress didn't want to go along with withdrawal.
joek and kammy the ho think that deterrence is a box of joek's full diapers.
I don’t believe that is the truth. I believe exactly what Pompeo said. the conditions were no right ‘in Afghanistan’.
getting out of Afghanistan was a main platform in Trumps run for his first tern.
Not sure where you are coming from on this, or what your purpose is in making this really negative comment about Trump but Trump was not likely to listen to people that did not support his agenda, especially something of this magnitude
Misunderstood
Biden is pure evil, but, why in 2019 did POMPEO sign deal with TALIBAN and did TRUMP not know about it?
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