The Taliban Parade

It is sad that Trump signed the surrender agreement with the Taliban and Biden followed through with it. FYI, it was $7 billion in equipment not $85 billion by the way. So the equipment was transferred to the Afghan security forces, so they could defend themselves. So when we’re wee suppose to take it back? Kind of catch 22 if we spent a lot of time and money and removed it from the country, we were not giving the security forces a chance to defend the country from the Taliban. But since Afghan Security forces decided not to fight all the equipment went to the Taliban. So what should we have done? Seems like a no win situation to me.

All anyone has to do is listen to the woman talk to know what a complete and total clusterfuck she would be as President but people will vote for her because she's a woman or whatever other bullshit reason the voter have been told! 

Until there is a woman who can prove to me she'll be a competent President - for the entire country - I will never vote for a woman and Harris is so far down that list, she's already fallen off!

Biden was in favor of getting out of Afghanistan as was Trump. Most Americans were also in favor of leaving. Not sure why Trump could not get out in four years, and dumped it on Biden. Biden said he did not want to leave it to his successor. Many generals thought we should have left a residual force, I agreed with the generals instead of the politicians.  Remember arguing that on the old site and I think only one other poster agreed with me.  Anyway, if we left we knew it would likely end up in Taliban control, hopefully they will not support a future terrorist attack but definitely could happen. 

So 3Swallows wants to believe the Generals that LIED to the Commander in Chief to keep troops in Syria?

Always interesting how the modern Soviet leftist scum want to be in charge until things go wrong then it ALWAYS the fault of someone else that it went bad. 

What you talking about.  Biden had to extend the date from May 1, 2021 to August 30,2021 to give adequacy time for us to get out.  Trump signed the surrender agreement. 

www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/
The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.
www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

I'll let Billy speak for himself, but the fiasco in Afghanistan relies solely on the Biden regime.  As I pointed out to Emmy in a different thread, President Trump negotiated an agreement with the Taliban for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan by May 1, 2021, similar to the way Bush did with troops in Iraq.  His thread had certain requirements for the Taliban to adhere to, such as not attacking US Troops.  The Taliban stuck to that agreement while Trump was in office.

President Biden later, and arbitrarily, changed this departure date to August 31, 2021. Biden did not renegotiate with the Taliban; he unilaterally extended the withdrawal timeline. Biden also abandoned Bagram airfield -- the large airfield that was easily secured. Instead, our troops were forced to withdraw from Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul. Hence, stupidity and breaking the peace agreement with the Taliban led to his surrender and emergency evacuation, having our withdraw after 20 years matching the withdrawal from Vietnam.   The Biden regime alone is responsible for what happened, although who knows how much Joe actually knew what was going on at the time.

As far as the Generals wanting troops in Afghanistan, they lied to the American public for years about the situation.  They never wanted to US troops to leave, and kept lying about the Afghan Army being a real fighting force.  In fact, there desire to keep US troops in Afghanistan is similar to elsewhere in the Middle East.  The military wanted to keep forces in Iraq after Bush agreed to withdraw them, only for Obama to pull them out.  It was only after the rise of ISIS did we put troops back in there, as well as Syria.  Our troops remain in both countries today.  In fact, Iran and their proxies still attack our troops with rockets and missiles.