Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "What the Taliban did as soon as the US left Afghanistan" video.

  1. Republicans are the type of people that will totally trash a hotel room, and then criticize housekeeping for cleaning it up. Thank you President Biden, for doing the right thing, and cleaning up the 20 year debacle that is Afghanistan. It wasn't pretty or easy, but doing the right thing is often times not easy. It's the reason why doing the wrong thing comes easier for some.
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  2. "The buck stops with me." -- President Biden, 08/20/2021 As president, Biden takes responsibility for the chaos of the Afghan withdrawal. 'No, I don't take responsibility at all'." --Trump 03/13/2020 Trump deflects blame for his coronavirus  testing debacle, and the soaring number of infections. Personally, I like presidents who don't dodge drafts or responsibility. History teaches that there has been a long-running battle with fear of the truth. People mistakenly fail to admit the truth, and in so doing, help to perpetuate recorded falsehoods. And if it’s not fear, then it’s distortion of the truth to promote a personal or political cause. Loyalty to the truth should be the ultimate goal of the historian and the reader. What can the individual learn from history — as a guide to living? Not what to do, but what to strive for. And what to avoid in striving. The importance and intrinsic value of behaving decently. The importance of seeing clearly—not least of, seeing yourself clearly.
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  3. Thank you!!! Beau is wonderful at explaining things so that MAGAs can understand them.
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  4.  @j.r4985  History will record Aug. 15, 2021, as the date that the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban retook control over that troubled and war-torn country. But the real date that the Taliban's victory was assured is Feb. 29, 2020, the day the Trump administration signed what it characterized as a "peace" deal with the Taliban. Once this agreement was signed - the tragic collapse we witnessed was inevitable.  Imagine that you and a partner have been in a 20 year life or death struggle with a common enemy. A fight where you have both bled together. And then one day, your partner decides to enter into peace talks with your common enemy, but decides to exclude you from the negotiations. Your partner then signs a peace agreement with this terrorist organization, that doesn't include you at all. It doesn't even mention you. That's exactly what Trump did to the Afghan army, the Afghan government, and the Afghan people. After Trump had cut the legs out from under the Afghan government and rendered it a paper tiger, it is no wonder that when those serving in the Afghan army and police were asked to fight, most said, "No, thanks." Once the agreement was signed, the fate of the Afghan government was signed, sealed and delivered - the Taliban had practically won the war. There was no way that the government could possibly survive.  And why would anyone think that cleaning up a 20 year debacle would be easy or pretty? Especially in a country like Afghanistan, and especially after the deal that Trump made. Name one thing about Afghanistan that has ever been easy, pretty, or smooth. So far, the US and it's partners have evacuated about 120,000 people since Aug. 14, the day before the Taliban entered Kabul. That's an outstanding number  considering the chaotic situation on the ground there. And I'm a Marine veteran.
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  5.  @j.r4985  Remember when Trump wanted to invite the Taliban to Camp David? I do. Ultimately the "deal" Trump made with the Taliban wasn't just a deal, it was also a double-cross. The double-cross was baked into the deal. Because he betrayed the Afghan government, the Afghan army, and the Afghan people with that deal.
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  6.  @j.r4985  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 question everyone should be asking, is why did Trump make a deal with the Taliban, a designated terrorist organization, and why was the Afghan government left out of the negotiations? It's almost as if Trump and the Taliban plotted against the Afghan government and the people. 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 Trump’s request. 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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  7.  @j.r4985  But the "tactical withdrawal" had already started under Trump. By the time Biden was sworn in, there was only a handful of troops left on the ground. Biden had only two options, stick to the agreement that Trump made, and agreement that was already underway, or reverse course, and start another surge by bringing in even more troops and risking further conflict. Because the Taliban had already taken over at least half of the country. Biden was really left with no good options. I believe he made the right and difficult decision.
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