Trump admin is the one that reached the agreement with the Taliban for withdrawal. When he did so there were 13,000 US troops there and by the time Biden took office there were like 2,500. Biden admin has indeed pointed the finger at his predecessor for the sloppy withdrawal. So essentially, you would have done exactly what Biden did in this situation. So what's the mystery?
Typical cracker yankee hubris and rhetoric. Of course our "high tech" white troops can hold out forever against the "illiterate" brown hordes, it doesn't matter that they're outnumbered nearly 20:1! One of our boys is worth easily 30 of theirs!
Apparently not. Apparently you've followed it since the invasion but don't realize that there were up to 100,000 American troops at points before handing over the baton progressively to the Afghan government which was so lacking in legitimacy that the Taliban numbers were growing massively again in the last few years and controlled the country within weeks of US withdrawal. So somehow the handful of US troops could have just stayed for as long as they wanted without once again committing far more troops, despite the large and growing resistance to their presence.
controlled the country within weeks of US withdrawal.
Again, the decision to withdraw was made in DC and not in Afghanistan. We don't know why, and probably won't for some time, but "forced out by the Taliban at the point of a bayonet" wasn't it.
The generals and the DC blob were furious. They were adamant that the situation was fine and they could have maintained occupation for another 50 years. Those are the accounts that I read; maybe you can contribute some that said the Taliban have militarily defeated us and we must withdraw before there's a wholesale loss of tens of thousands of soldiers like it's Berlin 1945 or something.
First I've ever heard of it, and I've followed it on and off since the invasion.
I would have let Trump take the blame, since he was so adamant about ending wars by forcing America (DC) to lose them.
Trump admin is the one that reached the agreement with the Taliban for withdrawal. When he did so there were 13,000 US troops there and by the time Biden took office there were like 2,500. Biden admin has indeed pointed the finger at his predecessor for the sloppy withdrawal. So essentially, you would have done exactly what Biden did in this situation. So what's the mystery?
This novel idea that the Taliban were about to evict the US from the country. Wasn't going to happen without a plan out of DC.
OK I guess the 13,000 US troops were going to hold out for 50 years against 200,000 Taliban or something
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Typical cracker yankee hubris and rhetoric. Of course our "high tech" white troops can hold out forever against the "illiterate" brown hordes, it doesn't matter that they're outnumbered nearly 20:1! One of our boys is worth easily 30 of theirs!
Death to America
Why not? Because they couldn't. The options were get out entirely or commit a much larger number of troops.
Uh-huh. I would have heard about that. I don't suppose you can supply some sources on this from the DC blob.
Read the Afghanistan papers.
Apparently not. Apparently you've followed it since the invasion but don't realize that there were up to 100,000 American troops at points before handing over the baton progressively to the Afghan government which was so lacking in legitimacy that the Taliban numbers were growing massively again in the last few years and controlled the country within weeks of US withdrawal. So somehow the handful of US troops could have just stayed for as long as they wanted without once again committing far more troops, despite the large and growing resistance to their presence.
Edit: I misquoted you so editing to correct that.
Again, the decision to withdraw was made in DC and not in Afghanistan. We don't know why, and probably won't for some time, but "forced out by the Taliban at the point of a bayonet" wasn't it.
The generals and the DC blob were furious. They were adamant that the situation was fine and they could have maintained occupation for another 50 years. Those are the accounts that I read; maybe you can contribute some that said the Taliban have militarily defeated us and we must withdraw before there's a wholesale loss of tens of thousands of soldiers like it's Berlin 1945 or something.