" Biden did NOT have to honor any agreement with the Taliban... you cannot just make up numbers like 12,000."
Yes, he could have gone back to fighting. I was low-balling you on troop strength.. It would have taken 25,000. If he had done that, you and Jamie would be crying cuz he broke his promise to get out, and Americans were dying again, without mentioning that we were back to killing civilians. The only difference is that most of us would be agreeing with you.
Milley said that had the U.S. stayed, "on the 1st of September, we were going to go to war again with the Taliban, of that there was no doubt."
He said staying past the 31st was militarily feasibly, but would have required approximately 25,000 more U.S. troops and would have resulted in "significant casualties."
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"The generals felt we could keep control with as little as 2500"
In the fall of '20, the same generals told Trump they needed 4500, so he pulled out another 2000.
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