Stryder50
Platinum Member
The Taliban are a product of and proxy for the Fundamentalist Islamic faction within Pakistan's ISI*.It’s on Trump for negotiating with the Taliban and excluding the Afghan government from. participation. so the Afghan government was packing and ready to go when the withdrawal the troops was about to begin on the schedule that Trump said and Biden inherited..
You probably didn’t know that in 2009! when there was discussion over whether we should pull out of Afghanistan that vice president Joe Biden was the only member of the Obama administration who was pushing for the pull out. Obama agreed with the McChrystal Surge of more Troops that was needed because George W. Bush left Afghanistan government on the verge of collapse when he left office because of Squandering the opportunity for seven years for success and Afghanistan because of the stupid invasion of Iraq. And that’s what Obama called any idea of invading Iraq. Dumb dumb. dumb before dumb did it.
The only real and workable solution that would benefit the West (and non Islamic Jihad World) would require dealing with and purging that fundamentalist Islamic faction out of the ISI.
Everything going into and out of Afghanistan had to go through Pakistan, mostly. Procedures set when we did our proxy war against the soviets there in thee 1980s.
Unfortunately, neither side in USA politics is aware of this foundation, and/or willing to do anything about it (ISI).
Hence the quagmire of 'caught between rock and hard place'.
*ISI -