| | | Yes, of course, but Biden didn't have to honor that. The Taliban was not the government, they are just a bunch of primitive barbarians!
You once asked me to show that Biden had overridden his advisers. He not only overrode his advisers, the intel and Afghan diplomates, he overrode both his Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State.
He was the lone ranger on this very stupid and inhumane policy.
Worse it looks like Biden was playing politics by wanting the exit to be before 9/11 2021, against the advice of his Secretary of Defense.
NYT:"WASHINGTON — President Biden used his daily national security briefing on the morning of April 6 to deliver the news that his senior military leaders suspected was coming. He wanted all American troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
In the Oval Office, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wanted to make certain. “I take what you said as a decision, sir,” General Milley said, according to officials with knowledge of the meeting. “Is that correct, Mr. President?”
It was.
Over two decades of war that spanned four presidents, the Pentagon had always managed to fend off the political instincts of elected leaders frustrated with the grind of Afghanistan, as commanders repeatedly requested more time and more troops. Even as the number of American forces in Afghanistan steadily decreased to the 2,500 who still remained, Defense Department leaders still cobbled together a military effort that managed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks even as it failed, spectacularly, to defeat the Taliban in a place that has crushed foreign occupiers for 2,000 years.
The current military leadership hoped it, too, could convince a new president to maintain at least a modest troop presence, trying to talk Mr. Biden into keeping a residual force and setting conditions on any withdrawal. But Mr. Biden refused to be persuaded.
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Biden overruled top generals’ advice to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, report saysPresident has remained ‘squarely’ behind decision to finalise US involvement in America’s longest war
Alex Woodward
New York
Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:33
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Biden Stands Behind Decision To Withdraw
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Joe Biden’s top military advisers and diplomats urged the president to maintain roughly 2,500 troops in Afghanistan while pursuing a peace agreement among warring Afghan groups, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper reports that administration officials warned the president that security in the country was deteriorating against an inadequate Afghan military and a rapidly moving Taliban, and a withdrawal of U
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| | | It was Trump who sidelined the Afghani government and negotiated with the Taliban. Even invited them to the WH. It was Trump who drew down the number of troops to 2500 just days before leaving office. Something that was never done. It was the Trump admin that basically refused to even talk to the Biden people about security and military matters during the transition as that ahole kept on denying that he lost the election. |
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