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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Sep 2, 2024, 12:17 PM Sep 2

Comment: A look at the legacy of U.S.'s Afghanistan withdrawal

By Daniel R. DePetris / For the Los Angeles Times

Three years ago, the U.S. military was at Kabul’s international airport frantically organizing evacuation flights out of Afghanistan as the Taliban returned to power in the capital city after a 20-year hiatus. The evacuation mission was rushed, with overwhelmed U.S. forces working to get as many Afghans out of the country as possible. The last U.S. military plane flew out of the airport on Aug. 31, ending a two-decade-long military mission, the longest in U.S. history.

The Biden administration received significant criticism during and after the evacuation. Former national security advisor John Bolton said the Taliban would again provide a safe haven and support to Al-Qaida as it planned attacks against the United States.

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, a onetime commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, stated that the withdrawal damaged America’s credibility around the world. Leon Panetta, the CIA director and Defense secretary during the Obama administration, went so far as to suggest that President Joe Biden may eventually have to send troops back to Afghanistan as former President Barack Obama did in Iraq.

In the three years since, none of these doomsday predictions have come to pass. Nonetheless, the weeks-long evacuation remains fodder for the campaign trail; former President Donald Trump constantly reminds rallygoers of the “Afghanistan catastrophe,” hoping to use the chaotic withdrawal as a referendum on the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policies.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-a-look-at-the-legacy-of-u-s-s-afghanistan-withdrawal/

The Taliban was able to take over because Trump released 5000 Taliban POWs.

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Comment: A look at the legacy of U.S.'s Afghanistan withdrawal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2 OP
Is there a realization, on the part of those who look at facts, that Trump, after undermining the Democratically lees1975 Sep 3 #1

lees1975

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1. Is there a realization, on the part of those who look at facts, that Trump, after undermining the Democratically
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 01:16 PM
Sep 3

elected government of Afghanistan by dealing with the Taliban, freeing their prisoners as part of the deal, had no plans for any kind of substantial evacuation of anyone except the few remaining American troops and personnel still in the country?

Talk about chaotic. The guy couldn't even understand the barest military details of something even that simple.

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