McMaster: Rapid Taliban takeover 'should not have come as a surprise'

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Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said that the rapid Taliban takeover of Afghanistan "should not have come as a surprise" to the Biden administration, which he argued adopted, along with former President Trump, a policy of repeated concessions to the insurgent group.

In an interview on NBC's "Today," co-host Savannah Guthrie asked McMaster, who served under the Trump administration from February 2017 to April 2018, to respond to Biden's comment on Monday that the territorial gains by the Taliban and the takeover of Kabul happened "more quickly than we anticipated."

"They should not have been surprised," McMaster responded, adding that the past two administrations delivered "psychological blows to the Afghans" by "telling them that we're going to withdrawal, making concession after concession with the Taliban, not even allowing the Afghan government to participate in what became our capitulation agreement with the Taliban."

"So it should not have come as a surprise at all," the retired Army general added.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. rump by his gross mismanagement of foreign policy (what foreign policy?) enabled a lot of what's

going on.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Just an opinion but I disagree a bit. I'm going to assume Biden was briefed by US intelligence

agencies and the consensus was that the trained and equipped Afghan defense forces were going to stand up to the heavily outmanned and outgunned Taliban a bit stronger than they did. I may be wrong but that's what my gut believes.

[JaneQPublic]

3. Friendly Reminder

No one really believes you when you claim AFTER THE FACT to have known all along how things would turn out if you never mentioned it BEFORE THE FACT.

[Raven]

4. Exactly!

[lame54]

5. Biden figured it out faster than...

McMaster figured out Trump was toxic for this country

[Bev54]

6. Why are these assholes all crawling out into the sun, nobody wants to hear from them

And mostly why are the media only speaking to former Trump or Bush advisors.