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jimfields33
(19,382 posts)He knew everything about Afghanistan. Hes brilliant to get us out of there. If we stayed another year or more, the story would end the same.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)The biggest criticism seems to be the mad rush to evacuate at the last second, because the Taliban got to Kabul so fast.
WhiskeyGrinder
(24,317 posts)Our government has known for YEARS that the Afghan military was shaky.
Shellback Squid
(9,213 posts)wtf? lol
WhiskeyGrinder
(24,317 posts)Demsrule86
(71,038 posts)of late.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,136 posts)Especially not without talking about it endlessly.
Shellback Squid
(9,213 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)capable of doing bad all by themselves...
doc03
(37,384 posts)and how he is so good looking. He would give them the key to the Pentagon.
Shellback Squid
(9,213 posts)Plan A, if tfg won the election, a slow orderly withdrawal ( trump had already announced our withdrawal)
Plan B, if Biden won then the taliban would rush across the country to take it as quickly as possible.
If the Kurds were still there we would have had more support and where is Eric Prince?
FakeNoose
(36,533 posts)I'm too lazy to google the date right now, but it happened back before Chump knew he was going to lose the election. Pompeo told the Taliban and the Afghans that the Americans are leaving THIS year, because they (Pompeo and Chump) both believed they would still be in office this year.
This wasn't a devious setup to make Biden (or any other Dem) look bad. This was just mismanagement of everything because Chump and Pompeo were terrible at diplomacy.
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)telling him "Next year when Biden is President..."
Shellback Squid
(9,213 posts)well before the call to the Ukraine's president Zelensky
brush
(58,739 posts)the election in Nov. 2020 so it was no trap for Biden.
Voltaire2
(15,194 posts)So that makes your conjecture dubious.
ProfessorGAC
(71,502 posts)First, they thought they'd win in November. There was nobody for whom to set a trap.
Second, the entire 4 years should provide ample evidence that these drones couldn't assemble a strategic plan with contingencies. Everything was seat of the pants.
Third, troops were coming home at some point & nothing would be different.
They're devious, but not clever enough to set a trap for a new POTUS for an event they thought they'd be running.
Mad_Machine76
(24,821 posts)and it would imply that he knew that he was going to lose the election (and he's still claiming he won)