How quickly can the politics around Afghanistan change? Here’s a section on the RNC’s website in June; click it now and you get a 404 error. (Rest of page was about Kosovo/Israel-Arab deals.) gop.com/president-trum…
Don’t even look at the drivel Trump is putting out about this. He is the one who gave the Taliban political legitimacy and made the deal that would have required a full blown escalation if Biden tried to renege. Not that Biden wanted to. He ran on withdrawal and was determined not to fall into the previous traps of “just a few more months” or the “we need to escalate before we can withdraw” fallacy. He’s kept his word, working with the conditions on the ground he inherited, which was 2500 troops and a Taliban enemy that had been on the move for months.