Pompeo and Trump sign historic deal with Taliban

[Johnny2X2X]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-trump/pompeo-to-witness-signing-of-u-s-taliban-deal-trump-idUSKCN20M31Z?il=0

How come they’re not bragging anymore?

[hookaleft]

1. This needs to be spread far and wide.......

[empedocles]

2. Video ads!!!

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R for exposure

Weren't some of Bin Laden's family members tRump supporters?

[Diamond_Dog]

4. "The art of the deal", huh ....

[ShazamIam]

5. The most startling detail I read today about that agreement is that the Afghanistan government was

excluded as a Peace Negotiator, looks almost like Trump and Pompeo gave Afghistan to the Taliban.

I still agree with the withdrawal.

Afghanistan was corrupt, then the U.S. added $$$$$ more corruption, then there was the separate corruption in the U.S. to keep the war going and paying the private military contractors for their gear and men.
Corruption from start to finish and from all sides.

[secondwind]

8. Yes, and by doing this, they delegitimized the Afghan President.

Trump is to blame for most of this, he carries the lion’s share of blame for all of this.

[ShazamIam]

12. It all looks very crooked, Pompeo and the political network he represents and their close ties to

the private military contractors in use there from the beginning, and that anti-government mentality, all to allow a private investor take over of Afghanistan's resources.

[monkeyman1]

13. bragged about about it ! won't now !

[malaise]

9. Yes that is correct

They negotiated with the Taliban

[wnylib]

20. Reminds me of previous attempts

by Republicans to negotiate with the Taliban, when Taliban leaders were invited to Texas to be dined (but not wined, of course) in preparation for a gas and oil pipeline through Afghanistan.

Those negotiations did not end well for the US.

[ms liberty]

21. That same summer they blew up the giant Buddhas. I was furious. Still am. n/t

[agingdem]

6. Trump and Pompeo thought they had a deal

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get out of Afghanistan, hand the keys over to the Taliban in exchange for some dirt on Joe and Hunter..an announcement would have been enough...Trump and his R's would have taken it from there...I think I'm joking but then this is Trump...

[oasis]

7. Kick for max exposure.

[bdamomma]

10. Thugs making deals

with other thugs, this was tRump's MO.

[dalton99a]

11. Yep.

[Traildogbob]

15. Get thee to

Liz Cheney and Andrea Mitchell.

[FakeNoose]

14. Thank you Johnny2x2x

I was too lazy to look this up earlier. Yes this happened in February 2020.

Back in happier times when nobody was worrying about Covid. Back when Chump and Pompeo thought they would still be in office in August 2021. It never occurred them that they wouldn't be able to rewrite history, and clean-up a few "whoopsies" along the way. They thought they had their 2nd term in the bag!

[blueseas]

16. Greatest Page please

[crickets]

17. Excellent point. Thank you, Johnny2X2X.

Afghan conflict: Trump hails deal with Taliban to end 18-year war FEB 29, 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51692546

[Jon King]

18. Biden said 5 weeks ago that Taliban taking over country was not likely.

The bigger question is how US intelligence screwed this up this much. The President was firmly convinced 5 weeks ago that the Taliban was not in position to control the whole country, yet they took over in 9 days.

Trump has been out of office since Jan 20th. So for 8 months someone has been briefing Biden with garbage intel.

There needs to be Congressional investigations.

[Johnny2X2X]

23. Investigation? Why?

This isn’t our country. It was a civil war that ended more quickly than we thought. About 16 days sooner than we thought. Why is this a huge deal? We didn’t lose any personnel.

[dchill]

19. K to the R!

[George II]

22. Little junior is all over Twitter today, obviously coked up as usual, blaming Biden and anyone but..

....his own father.

He even tweeted earlier about another fictitious Hunter Biden laptop.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. onna McDaniel, @GOPChairwoman , why did you just delete this from the Republican Party's website

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

25. K&R

Let's put the blame where it really belongs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Taliban co-founder and leader and 5000 Taliban fighters were released at TFG/US' request

TFG ordered released the head of the Taliban. This man will be the new leader of Afghanistan

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TFG also ordered the release of 5000 prisoners many of whom are not fighting against the former government

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