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Never Forget 9/11
(lemmy.world)
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Did he really say this
Yes.
Emphasis added. Trump negotiated the surrender of Afghanistan with the Taliban, releaseing 5,000 Taliban prisoners and drawing down troops to an unsustainable level before leaving office. To protect the remaining troops (and the Afghani government) would have required Biden deploying all new troops and commiting to extending the occupation. Biden chose not to do that, and finished Trump's surrender.
You know thinking about his answer, he didn't care about Afghanistan not falling. All he "cared" about was Americans not dieing, which didn't work anyway because he telegraphed everything. He served up Afghanistan on a platter.
I guaran-goddamn-tee he’d feed a thousand American soldiers to Rottweilers if it would get him more power and fewer consequences for his venality. All he wanted was to sabotage Biden. Nothing more.
That's true too. You can see it in the timing so that it would happen right at the start of Biden's term. If it went well, Trump could take the credit. If it went bad, then it's Biden's fault.
It’s always been the right’s strongest play: sabotage the ship on the way out. It works especially well economically because of the lag time between policy and impact.
Hmm, so context made it significantly worse this time.
Yeppers.
The transcript has it amongst rambling about how much their leader respects him but the quote was, "I got involved with the Taliban because the Taliban was doing the killing."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/asia/afghanistan-trump-camp-david-taliban.html