The detailed description...
This literally sounds like everything we know about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
He thought and still does, that literally by virtue of his personality and celebrity he could bend reality to his will and thus craft policy with an obvious lack of any familiarity with any facts on the ground. He's pulling his usual act of being both incredibly vague with details but implying or explicitly stating that what they did and agreed to was "great/tremendous/tough" or any combo of bull****ting terms.
And this was the agreement that he negotiated with one side locking out our Afghan allies in the government and military over there. Which was what caused the Taliban to be able to move so rapid in taking over while giving a false sense of calm because Taliban forces were happy to see us go and weren't going to engage our troops in any meaningful way since our departure is what they wanted after all.
Then we have a combination of the bigoted Miller wing of the Trump admin. making sure the bureaucracy responsible for processing the vast numbers of our Afghan allies' exit from the country was as hobbled as it could be made before turning it over to a new administration to work out while there was a deadline crunch while at the same post election period the GOP and the Trump admin. slow walked the transition and the filling of important positions that any functioning administration requires when performing boots on the ground foreign policy.
My question of blame towards the Biden admin. asks a number of questions though.
How were the facts on the ground so egregiously misjudged from both the sense of how rapidly the Afghan military and civilian structure buckled and dissolved to how and why the chaos of transportation of allies and U.S. citizens out WELL BEFORE the deadline wasn't happening in bulk so as to make an unprecedented air lift needed in the first place in such short time?
How can there have been misjudgements at this level that were clearly passed up through the chain of command from in country right into the State Dept. and DoD?
If people need to have investigations I say bring them on because we had a major Intel failure somewhere along the line. After our citizens are all out of harm's way congress needs to look into how so many at such high levels could be so wrong in their assessments?
