Sunday 15 August 2021

Joe Biden can't blame Trump

It is perfectly accurate to say Donald Trump was responsible for a terrible strategic decision by effectively handing Afghanistan to the Taliban after telling them he wanted to pull out all US troops by the end of May 2021. All the insurgents had to do was bide their time till then. But that was the decision of Trump and his administration. Joe Biden has been in power since January 20 and he decided, he alone, to carry on with the Trump error but the only difference is he set a new timetable for withdrawal. That's all he did. What he didn't do was say Trump was so wrong he was going to scrap the agreement made in Qatar on February 29 last year. So he can't now claim, as he has done, that it was all Trump's fault that we are in the mess we are now in, with the Taliban back in control of the country. Biden is the president of the United States and commander-in-chief. He can do what he wants and he wanted to leave Afghanistan. So the buck stops with him and him alone.

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