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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPompeo and Trump sign historic deal with Taliban
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-trump/pompeo-to-witness-signing-of-u-s-taliban-deal-trump-idUSKCN20M31Z?il=0How come theyre not bragging anymore?
hookaleft
(932 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)Weren't some of Bin Laden's family members tRump supporters?
Diamond_Dog
(31,660 posts)ShazamIam
(2,559 posts)excluded as a Peace Negotiator, looks almost like Trump and Pompeo gave Afghistan to the Taliban.
I still agree with the withdrawal.
Afghanistan was corrupt, then the U.S. added $$$$$ more corruption, then there was the separate corruption in the U.S. to keep the war going and paying the private military contractors for their gear and men.
Corruption from start to finish and from all sides.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Trump is to blame for most of this, he carries the lions share of blame for all of this.
ShazamIam
(2,559 posts)the private military contractors in use there from the beginning, and that anti-government mentality, all to allow a private investor take over of Afghanistan's resources.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)malaise
(267,813 posts)They negotiated with the Taliban
wnylib
(21,146 posts)by Republicans to negotiate with the Taliban, when Taliban leaders were invited to Texas to be dined (but not wined, of course) in preparation for a gas and oil pipeline through Afghanistan.
Those negotiations did not end well for the US.
ms liberty
(8,479 posts)agingdem
(7,759 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 15, 2021, 09:27 PM - Edit history (1)
get out of Afghanistan, hand the keys over to the Taliban in exchange for some dirt on Joe and Hunter..an announcement would have been enough...Trump and his R's would have taken it from there...I think I'm joking but then this is Trump...
oasis
(49,151 posts)bdamomma
(63,654 posts)with other thugs, this was tRump's MO.
dalton99a
(81,068 posts)Traildogbob
(8,576 posts)Liz Cheney and Andrea Mitchell.
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)I was too lazy to look this up earlier. Yes this happened in February 2020.
Back in happier times when nobody was worrying about Covid. Back when Chump and Pompeo thought they would still be in office in August 2021. It never occurred them that they wouldn't be able to rewrite history, and clean-up a few "whoopsies" along the way. They thought they had their 2nd term in the bag!
blueseas
(11,575 posts)crickets
(25,896 posts)Afghan conflict: Trump hails deal with Taliban to end 18-year war FEB 29, 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51692546
Jon King
(1,910 posts)The bigger question is how US intelligence screwed this up this much. The President was firmly convinced 5 weeks ago that the Taliban was not in position to control the whole country, yet they took over in 9 days.
Trump has been out of office since Jan 20th. So for 8 months someone has been briefing Biden with garbage intel.
There needs to be Congressional investigations.
Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)This isnt our country. It was a civil war that ended more quickly than we thought. About 16 days sooner than we thought. Why is this a huge deal? We didnt lose any personnel.
dchill
(38,321 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....his own father.
He even tweeted earlier about another fictitious Hunter Biden laptop.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)Let's put the blame where it really belongs.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)TFG ordered released the head of the Taliban. This man will be the new leader of Afghanistan
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TFG also ordered the release of 5000 prisoners many of whom are not fighting against the former government
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