Do you approve or disapprove of Joe Biden's performance on Afghanistan?

[Sandy Shanks]

His decision on April 14, 2021 to suddenly withdraw from Afghanistan regardless of conditions there or the impact it would have on terrorism, Afghan government, Afghan military, Afghan society, U.S. national security, was his alone.

Did Trump know he was going to lose his reelection? Did he want to hamstring his Democratic successor?

CNN reports, "Robert Crews, a historian at Stanford University specializing in Afghanistan and central Asia, said he believes the Trump administration's deal with the Taliban last year played a role in the group's takeover of the country.

"The agreement struck last year laid out a 14-month timetable for the withdrawal of "all military forces of the United States, its allies and coalition partners." The US agreed to withdraw troops and release some 5,000 Taliban prisoners, while the Taliban agreed to take steps to prevent any group or individual, including al Qaeda, from using Afghanistan to threaten the security of the US or its allies."

The U.S. military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday, a drawdown that may have violated a last-minute congressional prohibition.

The reduction could complicate matters for the incoming Biden administration, which must determine how to handle a Trump administration commitment to the Taliban to remove all U.S. military, intelligence and contractor personnel from Afghanistan by May as a move to spur peace negotiations. Those talks are in an early stage.

Pentagon says US has dropped to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan ​

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday, a drawdown that may have violated a last-minute congressional prohibition.​

The article is dated Jan. 15, 2021. Trump is still President.