TFG Made The Deal With The Taliban Not Joe

[DanieRains]

In case people are blaming the wrong people for the madhouse in Kabul.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973604904/trumps-deal-to-end-war-in-afghanistan-leaves-biden-with-a-terrible-situation

[XanaDUer2]

1. Thank you nt

[regnaD kciN]

2. Exactly, but he'll get the blame anyway...

...and saying "he was constrained by Trump's deal," although true, won't have any effect, as the reply will simply be "Well, why didn't he just tear up the deal, then?" (with the implication that "a real American leader, like Trump, would have" ).

[FBaggins]

3. There's no good way to spin this

What is he supposed to say? “We’ll gee… I trusted that Trump knew what he was doing” ?

[brush]

4. Don't forget about Pompeo. As Sec'y of State he had to have had a hand in it.

[Alice Kramden]

5. A terrible, terrible situation all the way around

And it started with GWBush