Trump did negotiate.
This is it.
I don’t think people quite understand that this is what it looks like when you say you are done somewhere particularly in Afghanistan with these savages when they had already taken over a lot of the country. Nobody in the ex Afghani government was going to stand up and fight the Taliban because they knew there was no way they could stand up to them without the assurance of American support.
This is the natural consequence of decades of failed policy. Unfortunately Biden is left holding the bag and the real responsible parties- the complicit US media, the former generals who insisted on staying, the neocons that came up with these wars, the Republican politicians etc just sit around pointing angrily at Biden and blaming him for turning out the light.
The naïveté and ignorance of the American people off the charts as usual: “Hey I was happy to ignore this “war” for ten years and now all of a sudden I am tuning in and WTF!!”
And all of a sudden Republicans care about our allies within Afghanistan? Where was this thinking when Trump gave carte Blanche to the Turks to do their worst with the Kurds?
It’s maddening
War is ugly… losing even if it was unwinnable and we weren’t even trying to win is uglier
Think of the money we spent there the past ten years just to prevent these images! Because we were accomplishing nothing! Someone had to man up. This President did