CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Biden and Trump both stuffed it up but Biden kept the intitial agreement and even used Trumps envoy didnt he?
The Pentagon warned Biden what was happening but he dithered around like he usually does and now is blaming the Afghan army. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-over.html

I suspect he knew what was going to happen and, like Trump, he waved the agreement around like Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper that guaranteed peace in our time. My guess is that Biden has just stolen the Captain Renault "I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this place" reaction from Casablanca. The mistake the US made was to occupy Afghanistan in the first place. When and how was the US ever going to leave without the Taliban taking over? There's been talk about withdrawal for the last decade: plenty of time for the Afghan Govt to prepare for that eventuality. The truth is they would never have been able to stand on their own 2 feet even if the withdrawal took 100 years to complete.

I feel sorry for the Afghanis who bought into a future without the Taliban. Not only is their future far different than what they'd been led to believe but many will have no future at all.

By the way, the Republican Party boasted on its website about the historic treaty Trump reached with the Taliban. That's now been deleted and no doubt it's being shoved down the memory hole as we speak. No doubt Trump will deny he ever made any such agreement as soon as next week. Anything to the contrary will just be fake news.