08-18-2021, 01:35 PM
(08-18-2021, 12:44 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: No, he told them we were going to leave May 2021. You can believe that he scared them, but he was quick to give them a sweetheart deal with nearly no concessions on their part, and his treatment of the Kurds in Syria made it clear that he was willing to exit quickly and abandon allies.
Yes. It’s the timeline/exit which set the stage for collapse.
Then Trump reduced troop levels faster than the agreement schedule without monitoring the Taliban’s “concessions”.
Watching “the five” right now. If you’d just tuned in from another planet, you’d think a withdrawal from Afghanistan was the last thing anyone in the US wanted—because of the potential for al al Quaeda resurgence. Some guy named Biden wouldn’t listen to the experts though.
If you’d tuned in on Monday you’d have heard it was the experts who had failed us