#trump taliban

[charlesoberonn]

Donald Trump is responsible for the spike in international conflict in recent years.

His 2020 "peace" deal with the Taliban which completely sidestepped the Afghan government and gave the Taliban everything they wanted directly led to the botched withdrawal of US troops in 2021 and the subsequent Taliban reconquest of the country.

This was a reversal of US geopolitical efforts and a successful war of conquest by an enemy of the US. While the whole world watched. It empowered autocrats and enemies of the US and its allies worldwide to attempt to do the same. Most notably with Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

So next time you hear Trump boasting that there were no wars during his term, remember that it was his incompetence that led to the current state of affair.

[jackassdemocrats]

[tomorrowusa]

Donald Trump's botched handling of the pandemic emergency spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. Perhaps memory loss is an unexpected side effect of Long COVID.

It's up to all of us personally to remind people of the horrors of the Trump administration. Don't rely on the media and political ads to do so.

Those who blame Biden for the chaos at the end of US involvement in Afghanistan conveniently leave out the fact that the Trump administration effectively handed over the country to the Taliban.

Senate Republicans, before they became full-time concubines of Trump, were alarmed by the timetable. This is from FactCheck.org

^^^ Li'l Marco should hope that nobody reminds Trump how critical he was of The Orange One's Afghanistan withdrawal.

Biden inherited a flawed deal from Trump. At the time Trump left the White House, US troop levels in Afghanistan were down to 2,500 as 5,000 Taliban prisoners were being released.

Of course not many people in the US were paying a lot of attention to Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of Trump's January 6th coup attempt.

[trump666traitor]

[cheesebongdynasty]

If you value value women's rights, LGBT rights, democracy, or minimalizing civilian casualties in war, you'll vote Blue.

If you care more about a "protest vote" than these issues, then you are NOT a "progressive."

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Mess Ups - Past - Presidency - Future

PAST - Participated In Jeffrey Epstein Sex Parties

PRESIDENCY - As Prez Released From Prison Taliban Ruler

FUTURE - Developed Project 2025 Guide For Day One Dictator

[purplecobra52]

I had to watch the debate for school, and let me tell you, it was exhausting.

[deadpresidents]

Random question, but something I've wondered for the last few years: concerning Afghanistan, should the US have considered leaving a few thousand troops in Kabul indefinitely while withdrawing troops from the rest of the country?

It seems like the capital city would've been relatively easy for American troops to defend, and their presence there could have blocked the Taliban from fully returning to power. A singular focus on protecting Kabul might've been one way to prevent the worst possible outcome.

When President Trump left office and President Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, there were only 2,500 American troops left in Afghanistan. The Trump Administration had made a deal with the Taliban to withdraw all American troops by May 2021, and Biden pushed that back by a few months, but if the U.S. wanted to defend Kabul we almost certainly would have had to commit to another surge of American troops and that simply wasn't going to happen. It would have required a bigger fight against the Taliban because we would have been pulling out of the deal that the Trump Administration negotiated and the Taliban was already in the process of rapidly regaining control of the country by that time.

Even when he was Vice President, Joe Biden strongly believed that the United States needed to get out of Afghanistan because the only other option was to be there forever. Twenty years of training and equipping Afghan troops still hadn't resulted in a national force that could stand on its own, so Biden had argued against troop surges since the earliest days of the Obama Administration. There was no way that Biden was going to surge the number of troops once he became President, and Trump was so determined to withdraw all the troops from Afghanistan before the end of his term that his Defense Department had to beg him to pump the brakes.

Just to defend Kabul would have required much more than those 2,500 American troops left in the country on the day Biden was inaugurated. And the Afghan government of Ashraf Ghani was an unreliable partner that was corrupt and often seemed oblivious to what was actually happening throughout the country. You used the word "indefinitely" and that's exactly what Biden (and Trump, to be fair) wanted to avoid. We had already been in Afghanistan for 20 years, and things weren't heading in the right direction.

I certainly don't agree that we should have been there indefinitely. I think we probably should have bolstered the American forces in Kabul for a short and specific amount of time in order to ensure that the withdrawal was less chaotic. But it was always going to be an ugly end. There was never going to be a victory in Afghanistan, and I supported the decision to withdraw American troops. I wish we would have done a far better job at protecting the Afghan people who worked for ISAF/NATO and ended up left behind to fend for themselves as the Taliban took over once again. It's a tragedy that those final days were such a mess, but one of our leaders was going to have to make the difficult decision to definitively end the neverending war that we were never going to win, and I think history will eventually see President Biden's decisive action in a different light, much like President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon is understood differently today.

[usssnarfblat]

A Childless Cat Lady

Kamala Harris says she wants to rebuild Gaza and get serious about setting up a free Palestinian state.

Stop and think ablut this: a woman president being the one to finally help free Palestine.

Think of the waves that would send throughout the Islamic world.

There is a reason pro-Hamas accounts don't want Kamala to get your vote.

If you haven't been following the state of women's rights outside your own country, please do some catching up.

In Afghanistan, it's now illegal for women to speak outside their homes.

Women will not be speechless.

That said, don't generalize all Muslims or Arabs. Most cultures and most religions have problems on need of addressing. Don't be an Islamophobic dick. And don't let an Islamophobic wannabe fascist get his orange fingers back into the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Let Muslim women be heard. And not just fictional ones from Western works, who I'm inserting to up the tags and get this post circulating.

[derseprinceoftbd]

DONALD TRUMP TRIED TO PULL A JOHN GREEN WITH THE TALIBAN?!?!?!?!?

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[7itch0zero]

[walking-circles]

i can hear my neighbor watching the prez debate on his phone across the street while hes trying to open his front dooe

[trump666traitor]

[isawthismeme]

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Afghanistan: Trump Started It!!!