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Biden, Trump trade blame on anniversary of Afghanistan collapse

Biden, Trump trade blame on anniversary of Afghanistan collapse

Biden, Trump trade blame on anniversary of Afghanistan collapse
Aug 15, 2022 2 mins, 5 secs

Former President Donald Trump and the Biden administration traded shots Monday over who bore the most blame for last year’s Afghanistan collapse, the deaths of 13 American troops and the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who had been promised a safe place but were abandoned by the U.S.

Trump defended the withdrawal, which he set in motion with a 2020 agreement with the Taliban.

Trump thanks to a 2020 deal with the Taliban that undercut the U.S.

“Former President Trump’s 2020 agreement with the Taliban empowered the Taliban, weakened our partners in the Afghan government, and committed to withdrawing our troops a few months after President Biden’s inauguration – with no clear plan for what should come next,” she said.

Central Command oversaw Afghanistan operations, and who said the withdrawal deal kneecapped Afghanistan’s security forces by creating a date-certain when they would lose America’s assistance.

“When we took office, the Taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001, former President Trump had released thousands of Taliban fighters from prison, and we had the smallest number of U.S.

Trump, defended the idea of withdrawal as the right call.

SEE ALSO: Afghanistan chaos: GOP report reveals new details of Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal.

“I strongly supported the bipartisan efforts of the Trump administration and the Biden administration to pull out,” said Mr.

Bush administration, ambassador to Iraq under President Obama and special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS under President Trump.

Trump’s comments Monday echoed his complaints over the past year, saying the Biden administration showed weakness with its handling of Afghanistan.

Trump often combines his blame for the Biden administration with a defense of his own decisions, including the 2020 Doha Agreement that laid out a timeline for withdrawal.

Trump, in his campaign-style rallies, tells audiences that he was prepared to break his deal with the Taliban and delay the withdrawal until the country’s stability was assured

Trump on Monday did make one false claim about the withdrawal, saying it gave “the enemy” more than $85 billion “of the best military equipment in the world

In fact, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction says that the Defense Department’s best estimate was that about $7 billion worth of U.S.-supplied equipment was still in the country, in various states of repair, at the time of the government’s collapse last year

The inspector general said that while some of that has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, it’s not clear how much

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