(08-21-2021, 09:00 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(08-20-2021, 10:50 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Paraphrasing the details here but....

Trump had a plan that included steps and actions to be taken that would have the Taliban and Afghan government partnered together (for lack of better words) to run the country. Approximately 800 of our SpecOps and CIA would remain to run a unit to keep everyone in check. Not perfect but better than the current situation which anyone with half a brain could see coming if a plan wasn't in place. Biden took a dump on all of it and you see the end result. The Taliban figured if we didn't keep our end of the deal why should they.

Trump is a blow hard and I don't care for him as a person, at all, but he's no pushover and he says what he means. That's who you want in your corner when making these deals because the other party doesn't know how to bully that kind of personality and they're not sure how crazy he really is. Not ideal but we're not dealing with rational people in the Taliban.

You're assuming Trump would've followed through with his plans. Trump was good at making promises. It's his follow through or lack thereof that caused many people to turn on him. I'm still waiting on a border wall that was supposed to be paid by Mexico and I'm also waiting for the bigger and better option to Obamacare that Trump promised. Weren't those the base of his campaign promises? I think so.

You know as well as I do that no POTUS fulfills all campaign promises. They're promises not guarantees. And the left was determined to oppose everything he did, even Operation Warp Speed. The vaccine that was 'poison' under Trump is now being mandated by the left under Biden. 

Trump failed at many things but foreign policy was not one of them.

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