08-26-2021, 06:48 PM
(08-26-2021, 06:34 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Trump calling for the withdrawal to happen in May without conditions being met isn't proof that Trump would have withdrawn troops in May without conditions being met.
lol
With respect, you're not really addressing his central point. He's saying that a withdrawal under Trump may have gone much smoother than the current shit show. It may have gone worse. His point is we don't know. I personally think, as stated earlier in the thread, that a withdrawal under Trump would not have precipitated the current disaster, if for no other reason that Trump is mercurial and prone to overreaction. I think it's likely the Taliban would have waited for US forces, and citizens, to leave entirely before rapidly taking over the country. They may not fear Trump, although I doubt that's the case, but they sure as hell don't fear Biden.
But, again, we don't know and that's Matt's entire point. What we do know is that Biden completely screwed the pooch on this, no two ways about it. It's honestly hard to imagine a realistic scenario in which things went worse.