DASHY wrote:
Meanwhile, under Joe Biden's command, over 100,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since August14th. Many of these people are Afghans. With 99% of the Afghan population being Muslim, and conservatives in the U.S. favoring a ban on Muslims entering our country, it is doubtful many Afghans will get to enjoy the hospitality of our great country. We rescued them from their country to find some other place to live. Thank you for your help over the past 20 years.
MIKE POMPEO: We were clear with the Taliban that we had this understanding--but you were going to live up to it. And we had a conditions-based withdrawal plan and we executed that. We were down from about 15,000 to a little over 2,500. And for the last 13 months of our administration, we didn't have a single American attacked or a single American killed.
It wasn't because of the piece of paper, that was the set of understandings. It was because the Taliban understood that if they acted against Americans and took on actions that were inconsistent with what they had promised to do, we'd respond and we did. We did it multiple times. When they pushed on us and the Trump administration, we responded with American power and American might, and we made clear to the Taliban that deterrence was going to be maintained. The difference was when the Biden administration came in, when the Taliban pushed, they withdrew. They showed weakness. The Taliban rolled it up. They put our military in an incredibly difficult position because they weren't prepared to defend the conditions and then decided to withdraw when the conditions weren't right.