It was under Trump that we withdrew over 10,000 troops. After flip flopping on the order to completely with draw by Jan 15th, he ordered the reduction down to 2,500 troops by Jan 15th, 2021. Since the truce was going to end if we didn't leave we would have had to redeploy thousands of fresh troops, back to a combat role, just to protect that skeleton force.
In reality Trump screwed the pooch in Afghanistan during 2020 by not enforcing the conditions of his so called and celebrated conditional withdrawal. The Truce, honored by both sides, was the only condition the Taliban ever complied with. 6 out of 7 were not. Under Trump, we on the other hand, complied with all 8 of ours. The truce and peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghanis were ignored as Trump withdrew more and more troops in 2020 and abandoned 5 military bases. This gave the Taliban the strategic advantage they needed to swiftly take over when we finally left.
Trump was happy about how he snookered Biden and he even bragged about what he did to sabatoge and hamstring the military at his first Rally in Ohio after losing the 2020 election.
"Worse than Afghanistan, where, by the way, I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn’t stop the process." "They couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process when other things…yeah. Thank you. Thank you."
Donald Trump held a rally in Wellington, Ohio on June 26, 2021. Read the full transcript here.
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Biden had two choices. Fully evacuate or fully return to war with the Taliban.
Another one of the Doha Conditions Trump ignored was the one that required the Taliban to crack down on other terrorist groups like ISIS from using Afghanistan territory to harm Americans. ISIS was responsible for the Terrorist attack during the evacuation that claimed hundreds of lives including the only Servicemembers to die under Biden, and the final 13 troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in our failed 20 year long Nation Building exercise. Using those 13 service members sacrifice as a campaign prop is another backhanded slap at the world finest military.
The so called liberal media ignores all those factors and tag along with the line that it was Saul Biden man, Saul Biden. So that way during the next war requiring a protracted occupation, the MIC can try to pin the blame of our failure in Afghanistan on Biden's withdrawal of the last 2,500 troops. They want the sheep to believe it was reason the Afghanistan war ended in failure, not a failed 2 decades long war occupation.
A media that doesn't report facts and gloms on to unprovable talking points is what haunts Biden and the entire country by providing cover for Benedict Donald's transgressions against liberty.
I can only imagine how loudly the so called liberal media would have whined if President Biden had chosen to enforce the Doha Accords conditions on the Taliban that Trump ignored. The Taliban meeting those conditions was essential for stability of the country and the Taliban were required in that agreement to meet those conditions before we started withdrawing our troops. The conditions on the Taliban in the Doha Agreement were the justification for Trumps massive draw down of troops in 2020. The problem is Trump didn't enforce them or require the Taliban to comply with most all of the conditions. He forced our Generals to comply with all our conditions.
Can anyone imagine sending our kids back into Afghanistan to kill and die in that senseless war. The so called liberal media's whine would have been intolerable.
Thanks for the Status Quo, so called liberal media.
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