Kruska
Diamond Member
Come on - at least try to be honest with yourself.Hold on a minute. If the situation was as you say, then why didn't Biden reverse course? If you want to say that withdrawal itself was a mistake, then Biden did have the option of ending the agreement. The withdrawal ended in September 2021. That's several months where Biden could have decided to reverse course. That doesn't vindicate Trump, but given your argument here, Biden could have chosen to scrap the agreement since the Taliban wasn't holding up their part of the deal. The additional leverage out of this was that the Afghani government wasn't officially involved in the agreement.
The American public wanted (in majority) their boys out of Afghanistan.
Trump made use of this "demand" via propagating he is going to end US involvement in Afghanistan, during his tenure.
That he then totally screwed it up, is a fact.
Both Biden and Trump - promised to end US engagement in Afghanistan - during their 2020 election campaign - needing those votes.
So simply because Trump had made a total mess out of it - you then expect Biden to break his "promise" towards his voters, and redeploy US troops into Afghanistan? and continue to fight the Taliban?