Trump promised to withdraw from there. It was a good idea until Biden actually did, under military pressure.
So the West sat idle while the Taliban retook province by province. Suddenly, Kabul was surrounded and Biden was given some days to withdraw.
I guess you're not smart enough to recall Demented Joe assuring us he had it all under control:
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
President Biden said the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would be, quote, "responsible, deliberate and safe." He did not seem to anticipate the speed with which Afghan forces would collapse. Here's the president on July 8.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The jury is still out. But the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
SIMON: Well, we've been hearing a month later that appears to be exactly what is happening. NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez joins us. Franco, thanks so much for being with us.
And as far as military pressure, he's the CinC. And the generals disagreed with Biden's choices. And, of course, Biden lied about it over and over again.
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While Milley and McKenzie said they would not disclose the content of private conversations with Biden, both generals offered their personal opinions that they said matched their recommendations.
"My assessment was back in the fall of '20 and remained consistent throughout that we should keep a steady state of 2,500, could bounce up to 3,500," Milley told Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
"I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and I also recommended early in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time, those were my personal views," McKenzie said.
The generals' statements were at odds with what Biden had told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an
interview on Aug. 18.
"No one told -- your military advisers did not tell you, "No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that?," Stephanopoulos asked Biden.
"No," said Biden. "No one said that to me, that I can recall."
Biden also said his military advisers were "split" on the matter.
McKenzie said he had also warned that the withdrawal of U.S. troops "would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan government and the Afghan military."
"I also had a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government," he said.
Key takeaways from congressional hearing on the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.
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The exit mess from Afghansitan, the deathes of those 13 soldiers and the massive maiming of many American military personnell belongs around Biden/Harris's necks.
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