The Biden-Harris supporters like to say “hey, Biden was just following Trump’s plan”, but, that plan was old, Biden was the actual president, and he refused to listen, because, plans can, you know, be updated and changed
President Biden was so hellbent on getting out of Afghanistan that he rebuked any advice to the contrary, ignored the pleas of the Afghan government and disregarded objections from US allies.
That was the one of the main takeaways from the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s more than two-year investigation into America’s chaotic, deadly Afghanistan withdrawal, according to a blistering report released Sunday. (snip)
His administration consistently lied to and misled the American public to try to convince them to support his consequences-be-damned view that the US should swiftly end it’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, the review said.
Former President Donald Trump’s administration had previously created and entered into the Doha Agreement with the Afghan government and the Taliban to end the US war in Afghanistan.
But Biden forged ahead with little deference to the terms of the agreement — no matter the cost — though he would later blame the same document for forcing his hand, the report found.
That plan noted that withdrawal was based on the Taliban meeting certain terms: unsurprisingly, Biden totally ignored those terms in his rush to get out of Afghanistan.
On Feb. 4, 2021, then-State Department spokesman Ned Price announced that the US would begin the review to assess the Taliban’s adherence to the Doha Agreement to evaluate whether the US should imminently withdraw from Afghanistan.
But “in his testimony before the committee, contrary to his public statement, Mr. Price asserted the Taliban’s adherence to the Doha Agreement was in fact ‘immaterial’ to the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan,” the document found.
And what was Kamala doing? She did say, after all, that she was the last person in the room during withdrawal and had a large hand in crafting the withdrawal.
Biden made the decision to pull out entirely despite nearly every military official advising against it, the document said.
“Despite President Biden’s public assertions to the contrary, our investigation has revealed the secretary of defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the commander of US Central Command, the secretary of state, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission and United States Forces-Afghanistan all advised against withdrawing all US troops from the country — both during and after the interagency review,” the report said.
We all witnessed this live on TV as the Taliban overran the nation, took over military bases, claimed billions in military material, and killed American citizens. It’s a long article, worth the read. And, let’s not forget, the fecklessness of the Biden-Harris admin led Russia to think they could easily invade Ukraine.
Once again the difference between a “conspiracy theory” and the truth is about 18 months.
Thanks Joey!
The media forgot about Biden so fast you’d think it was the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, fire in Maui, train wreck in Ohio, Venezuelan apartment takeover, or an assassination attempt of Trump.
If you can’t believe the House Repbulicums and the NY Post, who can you believe? LOL.
So America DOES negotiate with terrorists! Then President Trump negotiated a deal with the terrorist Taliban(!), and not the Afghan government, for the US to leave Afghanistan by 1 May 2021. He even recklessly invited the Taliban to Camp David! Trump forced the Aghanistan government to release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison!!
The Trump admenstruation had no plan for exit. Part of the deal was for US forces to stop bombing runs on the Taliban. Trump reduced US troop levels from 13,000 to 2,500 by the time HIS troops attacked the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. Afghan airspace was turned over to the Taliban.
After the US–Taliban deal was signed on February 29, 2020 (Trump was still prez), the US stopped supporting the Afghan military as Taliban attacks against Afghan security forces SURGED. During Mar-Apr 2020 the Taliban launched over 4,500 attacks on Afghan forces.
In a single week in June 2020 the Taliban carried out over 400 attacks killing 291 members of the Afghan forces. Over 40 civilians were killed and the Taliban kidnapped 60.
Trump fugged it up as much or even more than did President Biden. The Republicums are campaigning all the time.
The feckless Mr Teach typed: the Biden-Harris admin led Russia to think they could easily invade Ukraine
Yeah right. That’s why Putin invaded Ukraine and is investing millions in right-wing media to smear Ukraine and get Trump re-elected.
Anyway, Putin discovered that Ukraine was not such an easy target, didn’t he. Ukraine, NATO and US is teaching him a lesson.
Funny, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine while Trump was President, only when Obama and Biden were in office.
