permafrost Loc: Minnesota

How did President Biden's "swaggering faith in himself" contribute to the unpreparedness of the White House during the fall of Afghanistan?


How could anything else have happened. Trump released 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison…including the current Mullah running Afghanistan when he surrendered to the Taliban…. AND THEN withdrew all but 2500 troops on the ground there…essentially giving them Afghanistan by default. Trump literally wanted to bring the Taliban to Camp David (his military advisors nixed that) and didn’t even allow the Afghani at the negotiation table. Why aren’t YOU criticizing Trump for not withdrawing all of the troops there???

Why?

Because he is a petty little vindictive POS who wanted to leave his successor a choice of 2 s**t sandwiches. Do you expect me to believe that had Biden sent more troops over which essentially would violate Trumps Surrender Agreement cease fire and begin a new war there….that you wouldn’t have criticized Joe Biden for that?

This is nothing but hypocrisy looking for anything to criticize Joe Biden for…


This is just a reminder, and pulled from Quora, posted by a fellow Biden supporter..

Do not forget this..

Liberty Tree

There is nothing but hypocrisy not holding Biden accountable for anything.

BIRDMAN

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Sonny Magoo Loc: Where pot pie is boiled in a kettle

Bagram...the crux of the biscuit dude

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

As usual a half told narrative, more on the story,
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the agreement "an important initial step toward advancing security and stability in Afghanistan," adding that, "many significant additional steps remain to achieve comprehensive and enduring peace."

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

Hark! It’s the call of the North American Dung Bird.

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Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

The choice left to Biden was between two s**t sandwiches ..It makes no difference to those who want to blame Biden for trumps actions .

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

so very true, well said...

debeda

F**e news

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Was every single news outlet reporting this at the time f**e news ? How are facts twisted around and made f**e ?

debeda

Perfect question. Read up on operation mockingbird, and the Twitter Files for that matter and you'll know. I'm so disgusted with the state of the news services I could just barf.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

POTUS is the Commander in Chief. Biden had the authority and resources to make wh**ever kind of “sandwich” he wanted.

Rose42

Not quite true. Biden screwed up royally and there’s no denying it. You can’t blame his lack of leadership and bungling on trump’s screwups.

At any rate there’s no point in rehashing that mess.

BIRDMAN

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Justice101

Just the facts.

Yes, the Trump administration in 2020 agreed to the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners
Peace talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban, which never made substantial progress, didn’t begin until after the release of the prisoners.
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/afghanistan/afghanistan-taliban-united-states-deal-5000-prisoners/536-202b0ae9-6251-44d3-a3d0-b9e7d029aed9

Yes, as part of a deal made with the Taliban in 2020, the Trump administration agreed to the release of up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the release of up to 1,000 prisoners “of the other side.”

WHAT WE FOUND
The Trump administration and the Taliban reached an agreement on February 29, 2020, in Doha, Qatar, to pursue peace in Afghanistan.

Even leftwing CNN wrote a scathing article describing Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

"Biden’s botched Afghan exit is a disaster at home and abroad long in the making"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/politics/afghanistan-joe-biden-donald-trump-kabul-politics/index.html

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, contradicted President Joe Biden’s claim last month that top military advisers didn’t recommend keeping a residual force in Afghanistan.

In a Sept. 28 Senate hearing, both generals said they believe the U.S. should have left a residual force of at least 2,500 troops, and that Biden received those recommendations.

But in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News on Aug. 18, Biden denied that his decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan went against the advice of his top military advisers.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/09/generals-contradict-biden-on-afghanistan-advice/

Biden told the country that "the buck stopped with him", then he proceeded to blame everyone else.

He said the buck stopped with him in a speech full of finger pointing': CNN's Biden apologist Jake Tapper is among the first to lay into the president after he finally breaks his silence on 'calamitous' Afghanistan withdrawal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9899407/He-said-buck-stopped-speech-finger-pointing-Jake-Tapper-slams-Biden.html