I persist in the notion that Trump announced the withdrawal and Biden, in withdrawing caught all the heat. The actual military withdrawal could hardly have gone better in that time frame. Leaving the Afghan people who supported the decades long effort was tragic and much of it inexcusable. In reality, the withdrawal at the end should not…
I persist in the notion that Trump announced the withdrawal and Biden, in withdrawing caught all the heat. The actual military withdrawal could hardly have gone better in that time frame. Leaving the Afghan people who supported the decades long effort was tragic and much of it inexcusable. In reality, the withdrawal at the end should not have shocked anyone. There were two months hard warnings. Leaving the equipment in functioning condition was also inexcusable. Since the buck stops with the president, it indeed fell to him to shoulder that blame. Are we worse off for it now? Not in my mind. There could have been far more deaths in the endgame.
I persist in the notion that Trump announced the withdrawal and Biden, in withdrawing caught all the heat. The actual military withdrawal could hardly have gone better in that time frame. Leaving the Afghan people who supported the decades long effort was tragic and much of it inexcusable. In reality, the withdrawal at the end should not have shocked anyone. There were two months hard warnings. Leaving the equipment in functioning condition was also inexcusable. Since the buck stops with the president, it indeed fell to him to shoulder that blame. Are we worse off for it now? Not in my mind. There could have been far more deaths in the endgame.
It looks like we "demilitarized" the equipment that was in our possession during the withdrawal.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/09/republicans-inflate-cost-of-taliban-seized-u-s-military-equipment/