I don't think the media and people are considering some factors, that Trump removed Troops and left a small number in Afghanistan, but he gave the Taliban what they wanted, which was time to plan their moves by broadcasting this around a year ago.
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Oct. 8, 2020
Trump pledges to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Christmas; Taliban cheer
The president has made walking away from "ridiculous endless wars" the cornerstone of his foreign policy.
Trump's announcement came just hours after national security adviser Robert O'Brien said the U.S. had less than 5,000 troops in Afghanistan currently and would go down to 2,500 by early next year.
"Ultimately, the Afghans themselves are going to have to work out an accord, a peace agreement. ... It's going to be slow progress, it’s going to be hard progress, but we think it’s a necessary step — we think Americans need to come home," O'Brien told an event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Wednesday.
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We can't afford to have selective amnesia, even though the situation is a full on disaster, we have to look at the history of actions. 2500 Troops was nothing considering the size of Afghanistan, with so little troop, there is no way they could have been effective. The Taliban simply waited and put their people in place for their move, once more Troops were removed. Taliban's strategy resulted to be one where they made sure they would not have any gun fights with Americans, and when that was clear there was not enough Americans to put up a gun fight, The Taliban made their moves
380,000 Afghans Soldiers and they chose not to fight! That is the story that is being missed. That should be a global question of "
WHY"? Where were the Afghan Generals? Where is the Afghan Government Administrators.
After 20 yrs... it would appear if the Afghan people liked life without the Taliban, then why did they not back and promote their Soldiers to Defend their land?
The situation unfolding now... and by the media, they seem to have no concern to ask these questions, they are caught up in the devastations of the citizen population and disregarding the "Non Defense by the Military". The U.S. Trained them, Equipped them, but what the U.S. could not do was give them the mental mindset to back their oath to defend their country.
There has to have been some complicit conduct by the Afghan Military Leaders, to have their troops surrender without even a fight. of 380,000 Afghan Soldiers, and they did not even try to defend their Capitol. The President of Afghan fled ....
American Media needs to ask the right questions.
Why did the Afghan soldiers not have a commitment to protect all the equipment and weaponry that the U.S. provided them? They simply walked away, leaving the weapons and equipment to the Taliban.
The question is what did the Afghan General know and what did the Afghan President know that gave them time to exit the scene.
Where in all of this is the Other Nations who participated over the 20 yrs in Afghanistan?
Trump never should have made a negotiation with the Taliban, without the consent and cooperation and involvement of the Other Nations that fought in Afghanistan, and Trump should never have taken up such a task that he knew nothing about and would not listen to Military Advisers, would not listen to the Intelligence Agencies, and ignored our Allied Nations intelligence Trump also should not have made any negotiation with the Taliban without involving the Afghan Government. Trumps mess escalated into something that is a pure tragedy.
This is a tragic situation on so many levels. A great deal of responsibility falls on the Afghan Soldiers... and their non willingness to defend their country.
380,000 surely could have defended against 75,000 Taliban.
The truths will be decades before it comes out, because "this is a failure on so many levels" ..... It does not all fall on the U.S. it involved all the other Nations that were involved over the two decades, and it involves the Afghan Military and their lack of will to defend their Nation, and the Afghan people who did not push to ensure their government would protect the Nation.
The Taliban would not have moved into these cities as they did unless they had some assurance that the Afghan Military would not fight to defend those cities.
Other Countries in the Region simply sit by and did nothing as all this unfolded. "
Why"?
