Originally Posted by
MumblesBadly
FFS, Druff! Trump’s “HISTORIC PEACE TREATY” with the Taliban determined the timetable for when we had to be out of there, as well as no protections for our Afgan allies there from reprisals or persecutions by the Taliban. Furthermore, the Pentagon’s plans for the withdrawal were almost certainly established long before Biden took office. Third, Trump’s white nationalist islamophobic golden boy advisor Steven Miller worked behind the scenes to sabotage the efforts in the State Department to give any of known Afghan allies the special visas they needed to enter the US! Bottom line? TRUMP laid the groundwork for this crisis and left Biden to deal with how lopsided in favor of the Taliban Trump’s deal with them was.
The withdrawal date set by Trump keeps getting blamed, but it wasn't mid-August. It was May 1. So having blown by it by 3.5 months, why was it so important to withdraw so quickly and fuck everything up? This is a dumb excuse. Had we withdrawn on May 1 and Biden said he simply wanted to keep to our agreement, he'd at least have that. Here we were so far past the deadline that taking a bit more time to withdraw correctly wouldn't have drawn any criticism.
Biden also reversed a shitload of things Trump did, before he was even in office a week. To state that somehow this was Trump's fault for "laying the groundwork" is bullshit, because Biden could have changed or reversed anything he felt was incorrect.
Biden's top priority in his first week was to restore the rights of trans women to ruin women's sports. For some reason he didn't want to reverse Trump's perceived mistakes involving Afghanistan? Get the fuck outta here...
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