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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.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)eShirl
(18,490 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)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.
comradebillyboy
(10,143 posts)Trump could never close the deal.
dweller
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Bev54
(10,045 posts)that Trump had no intentions of getting out.
andym
(5,443 posts)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.