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Trump, by his own modest estimation, just a couple of months ago, acknowledged that it was his policy that he forced upon Biden:
“I started the process. All the troops are coming 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!”
Trump's normally fawning Fox News had exposed how desperate the Loser was to appease the Taliban:
“I started the process. All the troops are coming 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!”
“I started the process. All the troops are coming 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!”
Trump's UN Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted Wednesday, “To have our Generals say that they are depending on diplomacy with the Taliban is an unbelievable scenario. Negotiating with the Taliban is like dealing with the devil!”
Trump had briefly invited the Taliban to Camp David in 2019 ... before reversing course amid a bipartisan outcry.
Regarding Trump’s Doha Agreement with the Taliban, Trump’s former national security adviser, H.R. McMaster: “Our secretary of state [Mike Pompeo] signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban…This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”
Lisa Curtis, an expert on South and Central Asia who served on Trump’s National Security Council for four years, including when the Taliban deal was signed: The Doha agreement was a very weak agreement, and the U.S. should have gained more concessions from the Taliban.”
She said the deal was too heavily weighted in the Taliban’s favor and undermined Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who ultimately fled the country this weekend… She cited the deal forcing Ghani to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners who likely played a role in taking over the country.“Really, somebody has to look at that and why that happened,” Curtis said.
The Trump administration negotiated – and bragged about – an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. forces from the county by May 1, 2021. Trump’s defense secretary at the time, Mark Esper: Trump ‘undermined’ that deal by pushing for US forces to leave Afghanistan without the Taliban meeting the underlying conditions.
Trump's normally fawning Fox News had exposed how desperate the Loser was to appease the Taliban:
Another historic Camp David summit was not to be.
We didn’t learn until late Saturday that President Trump planned to meet with Taliban leaders at the Maryland retreat to finalize a peace deal for Afghanistan. That news came through presidential tweets announcing that the secret session had been canceled, in the wake of a Taliban attack whose victims included an American soldier.
Simply put, it is hard for many Americans to stomach that the Taliban, who harbored Osama bin Laden in the run-up to 9/11, would be given a civilized welcome by a president of the United States in those storied cabins--especially with the anniversary of that terrible day approaching.
But what rankles most of all is the venue. The Vietnam peace talks were held in Paris. The two summits with Kim Jong-un were in Singapore and Hanoi. The summit meeting with Vladimir Putin was in Helsinki. To invite the terroristic Taliban to Camp David, whatever the negotiating details, is really hard to swallow.
“I started the process. All the troops are coming 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!”