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Trump Hopes No One Remembers He Pushed for a Full Afghanistan Withdrawal in June
"Pakistan and the United States Have Betrayed the Afghan People
"How Biden Was Right About Afghanistan—and Disastrously Wrong
"Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban?
[...]
UK defense secretary says that Trump’s deal with the Taliban was ‘rotten’
and that the international community will likely ‘pay the consequences’"""
The 45th president is desperately trying to rewrite his own Afghanistan history.
By Bess Levin
August 16, 2021
IMAGE - Outgoing US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One at the White
House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021.by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the Biden administration’s decision to leave Afghanistan has become an unmitigated disaster thanks to the shocking speed with which the Taliban have taken control of the country. Obviously the situation isn’t solely the fault of Joe Biden; rather, it’s a 20-year scene in the making, started by a guy who would prefer to be associated with his painting career .. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/the-ice-man-george-w-bush-1234588832/ .. than with the deaths of thousands of Americans and two unending wars. As my colleague Eric Lutz noted .. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/joe-bidens-disastrous-afghanistan-exit-is-in-keeping-with-american-tradition .. earlier, though, it is the case that “what is happening in Afghanistan is precisely what Biden said, in no uncertain terms, would not happen,” from his insistence that the Afghan government would be able to hold the line against the Taliban to his claim that under no circumstances would we see “people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan,” which was almost exactly .. https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/15/afghanistan-us-embassy-evacuated-atwood-nr-sot-vpx.cnn .. the case. Most heartbreaking, the administration had sworn it would protect Afghan nationals and other partners on the ground, but many have been left in a terrifying state of limbo.
From the Archive: America’s Forgotten War
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2006/4/americas-forgotten-war?_ga=2.90679385.298871933.1629496885-666213835.1619738518
Still, Biden’s three presidential predecessors aren’t exactly in a position to criticize. Of course, understanding why they should keep their thoughts on the matter to themselves at this time requires self-awareness—something Donald Trump was born without, hence his absurd call over the weekend for Biden to resign .. https://nypost.com/2021/08/15/trump-calls-on-biden-to-resign-in-disgrace-over-crisis-in-afghanistan/ :
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Former president Donald Trump Sunday called on President Biden to “resign in disgrace” over his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and other issues. “It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy,” the former president wrote in a statement.
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Weirdly, Trump did not note in his statement that less than two months ago ..
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Or that someone on his team decided to delete from his website an April statement in which he said, “Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do,” chastising Biden for not doing it sooner than September 11.
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In related news, the Republican Party, whose members have been trashing Biden .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/16/republicans-criticize-biden/ .. around the clock and going so far as to suggest .. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568034-senate-campaign-chair-floats-25th-amendment-probe-against-biden .. he should be removed from office via 25th Amendment, have similarly been in damage control mode.
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Biden referenced the deal Trump struck with the Taliban—which the GOP hopes people will forget—in his statement over the weekend, saying .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/14/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-afghanistan/ : “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor—which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019—that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021, deadline on U.S. forces. Shortly before he left office, he also drew U.S. forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500. Therefore, when I became president, I faced a choice—follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict. I was the fourth president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan—two Republicans, two Democrats. I would not, and will not, pass this war on to a fifth.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/donald-trump-joe-biden-afghanistan
"Pakistan and the United States Have Betrayed the Afghan People
"How Biden Was Right About Afghanistan—and Disastrously Wrong
"Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban?
[...]
UK defense secretary says that Trump’s deal with the Taliban was ‘rotten’
and that the international community will likely ‘pay the consequences’"""
The 45th president is desperately trying to rewrite his own Afghanistan history.
By Bess Levin
August 16, 2021
IMAGE - Outgoing US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One at the White
House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021.by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the Biden administration’s decision to leave Afghanistan has become an unmitigated disaster thanks to the shocking speed with which the Taliban have taken control of the country. Obviously the situation isn’t solely the fault of Joe Biden; rather, it’s a 20-year scene in the making, started by a guy who would prefer to be associated with his painting career .. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/the-ice-man-george-w-bush-1234588832/ .. than with the deaths of thousands of Americans and two unending wars. As my colleague Eric Lutz noted .. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/joe-bidens-disastrous-afghanistan-exit-is-in-keeping-with-american-tradition .. earlier, though, it is the case that “what is happening in Afghanistan is precisely what Biden said, in no uncertain terms, would not happen,” from his insistence that the Afghan government would be able to hold the line against the Taliban to his claim that under no circumstances would we see “people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan,” which was almost exactly .. https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/15/afghanistan-us-embassy-evacuated-atwood-nr-sot-vpx.cnn .. the case. Most heartbreaking, the administration had sworn it would protect Afghan nationals and other partners on the ground, but many have been left in a terrifying state of limbo.
From the Archive: America’s Forgotten War
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2006/4/americas-forgotten-war?_ga=2.90679385.298871933.1629496885-666213835.1619738518
Still, Biden’s three presidential predecessors aren’t exactly in a position to criticize. Of course, understanding why they should keep their thoughts on the matter to themselves at this time requires self-awareness—something Donald Trump was born without, hence his absurd call over the weekend for Biden to resign .. https://nypost.com/2021/08/15/trump-calls-on-biden-to-resign-in-disgrace-over-crisis-in-afghanistan/ :
-
Former president Donald Trump Sunday called on President Biden to “resign in disgrace” over his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and other issues. “It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy,” the former president wrote in a statement.
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Weirdly, Trump did not note in his statement that less than two months ago ..
, he was bragging about how he started the Afghanistan-withdrawal process and claiming the Biden administration was powerless to stop it.Trump on Afghanistan, June 26, 2021:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
"I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn't stop the process. 21 years is enough. Don't we think? 21 years. [The Biden admin] couldn't stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop."
Tweet
Or that someone on his team decided to delete from his website an April statement in which he said, “Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do,” chastising Biden for not doing it sooner than September 11.
Full tweet
In related news, the Republican Party, whose members have been trashing Biden .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/16/republicans-criticize-biden/ .. around the clock and going so far as to suggest .. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568034-senate-campaign-chair-floats-25th-amendment-probe-against-biden .. he should be removed from office via 25th Amendment, have similarly been in damage control mode.
Tweet
Biden referenced the deal Trump struck with the Taliban—which the GOP hopes people will forget—in his statement over the weekend, saying .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/14/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-afghanistan/ : “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor—which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019—that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021, deadline on U.S. forces. Shortly before he left office, he also drew U.S. forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500. Therefore, when I became president, I faced a choice—follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict. I was the fourth president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan—two Republicans, two Democrats. I would not, and will not, pass this war on to a fifth.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/donald-trump-joe-biden-afghanistan
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