Biden Thread

[Furunculus]

You're blaming the wrong president.

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The Trump administration deliberately and systematically screwed the Afghans over.

"I started the process so the troops are coming back. 21 years is enough, don't we think? They couldn't stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process...by a government that wouldn't last. The only way they'd last is if we were there for another 21 years, for another 50. The whole thing is ridiculous, so we're bringing our troops back home from Iraq, we're bringing our troops home from Afghanistan."

Also testimony from insiders on how they deliberately delayed the visa processing so as to ensure that Afghans who worked with the US, who would be in line for reprisals that they knew were coming, would not get their visas before the US left.

that is a separate issue.

it is entirely true that trumps Doha deal left biden with a turd - in presenting an agreement that that was not enforceable and merely a vehicle for the taliban to leverage the threat - but it was only a problem because it was what biden wanted; exit. if it wasn't what biden wanted then there was plenty of taliban non-compliance of doha to repudiate the deal.

but what rory talks about is specific and discrete to the actions of biden.