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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Your guy makes a mess, draws down troops rapidly, releases taliban founder and prisoners, stops issuing visas, meets with the Taliban without the Afghan government, agrees to an aggressive withdrawal timeline. And when the next guy can’t clean his mess up quick enough you’re going to blame him, not the guy who made the mess.
Now ten Americans are dead.
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Whoa . . . the guy who made the mess!!?? The mess started 20 years ago by several other "guys," and it was a lot messier along the way. Baradar wasn't the only Taliban leader who was released by negotiations with the Taliban. Remember Obama traded the release of 5 Taliban leaders (now instrumental in the Taliban takeover) for the release of American deserter Bowe Bergdahl?
https://nypost.com/2021/08/16/taliba...swap-by-obama/
Hasn't Biden been negotiating with the Taliban as well? Not sure if all the reporting of Trump's deals with the Taliban are accurately portrayed, but, if so, Trump may have proposed the mess. But Biden has implemented it. So where do we go from here?