08-20-2021, 02:56 PM
(08-20-2021, 03:13 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: Interestingly enough, leaving Afghanistan might be the only thing that Trump and Biden agreed on. Trump made the agreement with the Taliban for us to leave. Biden followed through with Trumps agreement. He didn't have to: the Taliban had already broken many terms of the agreement. Then again, if Trump would have been really serious about having us leave, he could have made it happen at any time during the prior four years.
I will give Trump credit for this much, however: His agreement with the Taliban is probably what will make it possible for thousands of Afghanis to leave in the next couple of weeks. But bear in mind that the Taliban is not a "top-down" centralized authority type organization. Rather, they are completely the opposite. They are a loose collection of small groups. What that means is, one group may negotiate with the U.S. and sincerely promise not to attack Afghanis who wish to leave, while on the other side of the country another group may decide that public stoning is on the entertainment menu for tonight.
As far as the weapons, those are weapons the Afghanis purchased from us. That's the funny thing about arms deals: once you sell them to someone else, you never know where they might end up, eh.
Trump deserves credit for prison reform as well, among other things that get buried behind his mean tweets and the media hysteria over Trump. It's sad too, because if he could've refrained from calling people names on twitter every day more people might care about some of the good things he actually did do. Its his own fault, smh
