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keithbvadu2

(36,768 posts)
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 08:00 PM Sep 2021

What did Biden do that went against Trump's plan to leave Afghanistan?

What did Biden do that went against Trump's plan to leave Afghanistan?

I asked a Trumpster and all I got was a lie and a sidestep.

I can think of one.

1. It took a bit longer.

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What did Biden do that went against Trump's plan to leave Afghanistan? (Original Post) keithbvadu2 Sep 2021 OP
Biden got them out of Afghanistan and Trump didn't get it done. blueinredohio Sep 2021 #1
something along the lines of Presidenting While Not Trump eShirl Sep 2021 #2
Zero. It didn't take longer than Trump's plan. ancianita Sep 2021 #3
Biden actually got us out of Afghanistan. comradebillyboy Sep 2021 #4
He succeeded ? dweller Sep 2021 #5
He got out 124,000 people Bev54 Sep 2021 #6
Probably Biden's mistake was to allow Trump's policy to dictate what happens andym Sep 2021 #7

ancianita

(36,023 posts)
3. Zero. It didn't take longer than Trump's plan.
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 08:24 PM
Sep 2021

Biden froze Taliban assets & used them as leverage to get more Americans out past Aug 30.
Biden got everybody out on time, even when Trump set up a big fat surrender of military bases and military equipment just like he did with 19 bases in Syria.

andym

(5,443 posts)
7. Probably Biden's mistake was to allow Trump's policy to dictate what happens
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 10:36 PM
Sep 2021

Unfortunately, Biden has long wanted the US out of Afghanistan, so his policy was in a rare agreement with Trump's. What Biden's team did not realize was that the exit of the US would so quickly crush morale of the Afghan army. Leaving some US soldiers there would have probably been a better choice, as the Afghan army morale would have not completely evaporated, most could have been evacuated before Kabul and the other major cities fell.

Of course a big problem was that Trump freed key Taliban members who helped defeat the Afghan army, and if the US stayed they would have had to deal with them.

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