featureless wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 1:24 pm
tailgunner wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 12:11 pm
Trump released 5,000 Taliban prisoners, drew back our forces in Afghanistan which F'd up our withdrawal which resulted in deaths of soldiers.
He is an idiot.
You do realize Biden was CIF during the withdrawal, right?
But I do agree, Trump's an idiot. One of the reasons I'm pretty sure we'll survive him. Now, if he was smart or competent, we'd be in real trouble.
Biden bears responsibility for the withdrawal. However, one has to take into consideration the conditions of that withdrawal and the consequences if he stalled.
Trump had withdrawn enough troops to make the situation dangerous for the remaining troops - who the Taliban would have killed completely if the withdrawal didn’t happen.
Trump also closed every airbase except one, which further exacerbated the difficulty.
He had invited the Taliban to bloody Camp David before being talked out of it, and completely excluded the Afghan government (who our servicemen died to democratically elect) and essentially gave the Taliban the equipment because the government had no standing in Trump’s deal. And, one of the more than 5000 terrorists he released is now the head of the illegal government who owns the equipment.
It’s all right there in the Doha agreement if you take 2 seconds to read it.
Don’t forget that the orange Child wouldn’t let Biden’s transition team get any information about what was going on, nor did they cooperate in any way.
So yeah, Biden was in charge, but he was also left scrambling to figure it out without any help
