From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Underestimating The Enemy: Why Biden's Afghanistan Exit Went So Badly Wrong - For The Biden Administration, It Was The Start of A Sort of Litany of Things That Didn't Go As Well As They Would Have Drawn Up on The Whiteboard
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:53:42 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-09-11 09:13, AlleyCat wrote:
> Underestimating The Enemy: Why Biden's Afghanistan Exit Went So Badly Wrong
>
> https://www.ft.com/content/2f0c12 - F5-f501-41e2-b1e1-176e0b61f9d6
>
> The Taliban's capture of Afghanistan meant that Biden now had to rely on the Islamist group to ensure safe
> passage for Afghans and foreign nationals who were rushing to leave, and to prevent ...
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> The US State Department on Friday released its long-awaited Afghanistan After Action Review report, which
> found that the Biden administrations' decisions to pull all US troops from Afghanistan had detrimental
> consequences, and details damning shortcomings by the current administration that led to the deadly and
> chaotic US withdrawal from that country after nearly two decades on the ground. - CNN
When Biden took office, US forces in Afghanistan had been drawn down to
just 2,500...
...and in contrast, Trump had two times that number of Taliban released
from custody.