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Trump's deal with the Taliban, explained
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Trumps deal with the Taliban, explained
By Amber Phillips
Reporter, The Fix
Yesterday at 7:27 p.m. EDT
This has been updated with the latest.
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan turning deadly for U.S. troops, President Biden faces new criticism for a situation that he argues presents him few options.
The deal that President Donald Trump cut last year with the Taliban forced Biden to choose between a withdrawal now or an escalation of the war, Biden said Thursday, as he addressed the nation after at least 13 members of the U.S. military were killed in Kabul.
He choose to withdraw.
I had only one alternative, he said, to send thousands more troops back into Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won, relative to the reason why we went in the first place.
When the deal was cut in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020, it wasnt treated as huge news, because the war itself wasnt big news. So many people dont actually know its contents.
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By Amber Phillips
Amber Phillips analyzes politics for The Washington Post's nonpartisan politics blog and authors The 5-Minute Fix newsletter, a rundown of the day's biggest political news. She was previously the one-woman D.C. bureau for the Las Vegas Sun and has reported from as far away as Taiwan. Twitter https://twitter.com/byamberphillips
Trumps deal with the Taliban, explained
By Amber Phillips
Reporter, The Fix
Yesterday at 7:27 p.m. EDT
This has been updated with the latest.
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan turning deadly for U.S. troops, President Biden faces new criticism for a situation that he argues presents him few options.
The deal that President Donald Trump cut last year with the Taliban forced Biden to choose between a withdrawal now or an escalation of the war, Biden said Thursday, as he addressed the nation after at least 13 members of the U.S. military were killed in Kabul.
He choose to withdraw.
I had only one alternative, he said, to send thousands more troops back into Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won, relative to the reason why we went in the first place.
When the deal was cut in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020, it wasnt treated as huge news, because the war itself wasnt big news. So many people dont actually know its contents.
{snip}
By Amber Phillips
Amber Phillips analyzes politics for The Washington Post's nonpartisan politics blog and authors The 5-Minute Fix newsletter, a rundown of the day's biggest political news. She was previously the one-woman D.C. bureau for the Las Vegas Sun and has reported from as far away as Taiwan. Twitter https://twitter.com/byamberphillips
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Trump's deal with the Taliban, explained (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2021
OP
traitortrump's 'agreement with the taliban got almost nothing - for the U.S. . . .
empedocles
Aug 2021
#2
dweller
(23,662 posts)1. And it should be posed as thus : TFG surrendered
Overall, it was a pretty good deal for the Taliban, critics said. Trump all but assured the future course of events would reflect the Talibans interests far more than the United States, Miller writes. H.R. McMaster, Trumps second national security adviser, has recently called it a surrender agreement with the Taliban. Another member of Trumps National Security Council said it was a very weak agreement.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. traitortrump's 'agreement with the taliban got almost nothing - for the U.S. . . .
SarcasticSatyr
(1,183 posts)5. And worse, a lot of what the Taliban agreed to, they went back on .....
.... I almost have more respect for Biden now, knowing what a shitty situation TFG left him with.
czarjak
(11,296 posts)3. Art of the Chaos Candidate. See, a Bush can be right eventually.
underpants
(182,883 posts)4. Great read. Thanks.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,566 posts)6. For this thread