WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s administration signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020, he optimistically proclaimed that “we think we’ll be successful in the end.” His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, asserted that the administration was “seizing the best opportunity for peace in a generation.”
Eighteen months later, President Joe Biden is pointing to the agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, as he tries to deflect blame for the Taliban overrunning Afghanistan in a blitz. He says it bound him to withdraw U.S. troops, setting the stage for the chaos engulfing the country.
But Biden can go only so far in claiming the agreement boxed him in. It had an escape clause: The U.S. could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed. They did, but Biden chose to stay in it, although he delayed the complete pullout from May to September.
Chris Miller, acting defense secretary in the final months of the Trump administration, chafed at the idea that Biden was handcuffed by the agreement.
“If he thought the deal was bad, he could have renegotiated. He had plenty of opportunity to do that if he so desired,” Miller, a top Pentagon counterterrorism official at the time the Doha deal was signed, said in an interview.
just like the gay terrorsit obama. the agalmetophile needs to be impeached for acts of sedition and treason. This is what he was doing behind America’s back. News from the Front Page:
On August 14, Secretary of State Blinken spoke with Afghanistan’s former president and promised that the Biden administration would provide a bulk shipment of dollars.
The next day Kabul fell.
On that same call, Afghanistan’s former leader had agreed to surrender power to the Taliban.
The Biden administration had effectively agreed to provide a massive infusion of cash to the Taliban. But the final deal fell through, the Afghan government fled, and the Taliban took Kabul.
The bulk shipment of dollars never did arrive.
The traitor needs to go NOW
Had feckless biden stuck with the Trump plan, we would not be in this catastrophe.
Elections have consequences; stolen elections have catastrophic consequences…
I’ve never been a big fan of withdrawing, but the alternative is going back in with more to, again, sweep the Taliban from the field. However, “withdrawing” never meant every single person leaving and, now, we will be at a severe disadvantage to know what is happening and about to happen.
It has been demonstrated that some idiot like Biden should never have such responsibility for operations and policies such as this.
Eeeek! Trump set up a failure! I MUST go down that road.
Trump set up a winning economy.
We were energy independent.
The border was the most secure I can remember..
Sooo, Biden screwed everything up that Trump had working
And then pretended that it was preordained that civilians and Afghan interpretors would be left behind,,, because
Trump..
And the number of people who happily buy that crap is mind boggling.
And again from a Captain Obvious in the UK
https://justthenews.com/government/security/former-british-leader-tony-blair-blasts-biden-exit-afghanistan-imbecilic