A Pontius Pilate policy that the Former Guy had stridently opposed for many, many years, but reverted to during the four years he had the opportunity to make good on his oft-hyperbolic insistence upon immediate withdrawal.
Finally, in February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed an agreement that called for all U.S. troops to be out of Afghanistan by May of this year.
Trump praised the President's August withdrawal, but whined that what he had advocated for so many years should have been done sooner.
Trump calls Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal "wonderful" and "positive"
but criticized the timeline and said the U.S. "should get out earlier."
The Biden administration is now trying to mitigate the consequences of Pompeo's deal with the Taliban:
CIA Director William Burns met Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday...
[T]e most pressing issue is whether the U.S. airlift operation at the Kabul airport will continue beyond the Aug. 31 deadline.
While news of the Burns-Baradar meeting came as a surprise, the U.S. and the Taliban are in regular contact and have a number of issues to work out.
The talks between CIA Director William Burns and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar come as an Aug. 31 deadline looms for the end of the U.S. airlift and withdrawal of U.S. forces.
www.npr.org
Yep, Trump was working to get our troops out. Sadly, he didn't win re-election, or his plan would have been in place....and frankly we wouldn't of left, given that the Taliban didn't follow it, or meet any of it's conditions.
Or maybe they would have, given that they actually feared President Trump
I think we all praised the idea that we were getting out, but we were being lied to by Xiden about the intel that he had, had we known what he knew, nobody would have supported handing the country off to the Taliban, or pulling troops out without securing our allies and civilians.
So, please stop with this deflection...it's been debunked numerous times.
Xiden even admitted that the Trump plan had nothing to do with what he did
The president’s acknowledgment comes after he has argued his hands were tied by the previous administration’s agreement.
www.politico.com
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President Joe Biden revealed in a new interview that he still would have sought to pull American forces out of Afghanistan even if former President Donald Trump had not struck a deal with the Taliban last year that paved the way for an eventual U.S. troop withdrawal.
“I would have tried to figure out how to withdraw those troops, yes,” Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview conducted Wednesday. Segments of the interview aired Wednesday on ABC’s “World News Tonight” and Thursday on “Good Morning America.”
The president’s acknowledgment comes after he and top aides have argued the White House’s hands were tied by the Trump-era agreement — brokered last February in Doha, Qatar — saying it forced Biden to follow through on a full-scale Afghanistan withdrawal in his opening months in office.
But Biden’s latest statement that he would have pursued a pullout of U.S. troops regardless of Trump’s negotiations with the Taliban complicates the current administration’s argument for its own withdrawal order.