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Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany parroted the GOPs recent attempt to memory hole the Trump administrations role in the destabilizing collapse of Afghanistan, loudly declaring on Monday that the Taliban quickly seizing control of the Afghan capital of Kabul would have never happened under President Donald Trump.
Since the Talibans sweeping takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troopswhich has resulted in the chaotic evacuation of American diplomats and Afghan refugeesa number of former Trump officials (including Trump himself) have sought to lay all of the blame solely at the Biden administrations feet.
The chastising and finger-pointing has taken place despite the fact that it was the Trump administration that negotiated the historic peace agreement with the Taliban that called for the total withdrawal of American troops by May 1. (The Biden administration actually extended the withdrawal until the end of August.)
Furthermore, Team Trump also agreed to the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, many of whom immediately rejoined the fight. The former president also negotiated the release of Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar from a Pakistan prison three years ago, believing Baradar could help broker peace with the Taliban. Baradar, who posed in pictures with ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just nine months ago, is now poised to be the new leader of Afghanistan.
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malaise
(269,292 posts)Fuck off FUX
Hugin
(33,222 posts)What TFG was trying to do is set up Eric Prince as a dictator in Afghanistan paid for with our tax dollars. It would have failed. As anything he touches does. Including what we are witnessing now.
Thank goodness there's an adult in the form of President Biden doing what really needed to be done.
An added bonus is the Kremlin's bounty on US personnel with the Taliban just got that much more difficult. BTW, TFG refused to do anything about this. Except to encourage it.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)recognize them as a legitimate gov't and get a piece of the rare earths industry there.