Trump slams Biden for Afghanistan withdrawal at Alabama rally
Former President Donald Trump slammed the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as “the greatest foreign policy humiliation in the history of the United States of America” during a rally in Alabama on Saturday.
Trump ripped President Biden for allowing “weakness in the White House,” saying that, Vietnam looks like a Masterclass in strategy compared to Joe Biden’s catastrophe.”
“This will go down as one of the great military defeats of all time and it did not have to happen that way,” Trump said to his supporters. “This was not a withdrawal, this was a total surrender, for no reason.”
There was a president who
1) ordered one of the 2 founders of the Taliban out of jail after Obama had him there for 7 years
2) negotiated the withdrawal of the US troops with the Taliban, with a firm US withdrawal date
3) excluded the Afghan Army and government from all negotiations, making it clear that they had little power and would have continue to have in the future, with no continuing US help in supporting their corrupt regime and phantom army
4) negotiated the terms of withdrawal/surrender that has resulted in ZERO US deaths since the Agreement
That president's name is Donald J Trump.
Strongly agreeing with Trump, Biden wanted to keep the agreed upon May 1st date. After all, Biden campaigned against Trump's tearing up agreements made by Obama. Biden was convinced to try to extend the deadline. Biden extended the deadline to August 31, presumably with Taliban agreement, since there have still have been no Americans killed. The Taliban has protected Americans, and apparently assisted in the withdrawal. The 100,000 could not possibly have been evacuated without Taliban cooperation. The Taliban has even been protecting us against ISIS-K, although that is becoming more difficult.
To be clear, the Taliban could have bombed the runways or the people at the gates, or used other kinds of devices. That would have greatly diminished the number that could have been evacuated. And, that attack could have been made by extremists from the Taliban or by ISIS-K. The Taliban could certainly have reasonably claimed that they weren't responsible since they could not be expected to control every extremist Taliban fighter or even less control all of the ISIS-K fighters.
Of course, the Taliban isn't doing this out of humanitarian interests. They just want the US out, and the Taliban founder in control of Afghanistan, as was promised and agreed to in 2020.