Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Biden asked if there were any mistakes withdrawing. See his response" video.

  1. Trump's deal was a recipe for disaster from the start. The reason why is because Trump didn't cut a deal with the Afghan government or the Afghan people. He cut a deal with the Taliban. The Afghan government was left out of the talks. Let that sink in for a moment.
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  2. Any deal that Trump makes is guaranteed to end badly. The Trump White House agreed to a May 1 troop withdrawal. Biden had to decide whether to honor a deal that included the Taliban, but not the Afghan government. The most disturbing thing about the agreement Trump made, was that the Afghan government was left out of it. Trump was negotiating with the Taliban about whether or not to remove our troops, and NOT with the Afghan government, which was hosting our troops. The Republican National Committee has conveniently removed an inconvenient webpage from 2020 in which it praised Trump for signing a "historic peace agreement with the Taliban." The page had been removed with the web address redirecting to a 404 error page featuring the quip: "It looks like you're as lost as Biden is." Featured as part of a section titled "President Trump Is Bringing Peace In The Middle East," the page described how Trump had "continued to take the lead in peace talks." In the now-deleted GOP webpage, it is stated that Trump negotiated a deal for the withdrawals by May 2021 "in exchange for a Taliban agreement to not allow Afghanistan to be used for transnational terrorism." Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the organization's current political chief, was released from a Pakistani jail at the request of Trump. Remember when Trump wanted to invite the Taliban to Camp David? As recently as April, Trump was also voicing his support for withdrawal, stating that "getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do." The UK's defense minister blamed the chaos in Afghanistan on Trump on Monday. UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace has pointed the finger at Trump. He told "BBC Breakfast" on Monday: "The die was cast when the deal was done by Donald Trump, if you want my observation." "President Biden inherited a momentum, a momentum that had been given to the Taliban because they felt they had now won. He'd also inherited a momentum of troop withdrawal from the international community, the US." "So I think in that sense, the seeds of what we're seeing today were before President Biden took office. The seeds were a peace deal that was effectively rushed, that wasn't done in collaboration properly with the international community and then a dividend taken out incredibly quickly." He had previously called Trump's deal "rotten" and said the international community would likely "pay the consequences."
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