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didn't Trump/GOP want to pull out of Afghanistan as well?

https://theweek.com/afghanistan-war/1003748/gop-takes-down-2...

Otherwise, why would they sign a peace agreement?

"The Republican National Committee has removed a page from the 2020 campaign that says "Biden has had a history of pushing for endless wars" while "Trump has continued to take the lead in peace talks as he signed a historic peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, which would end America's longest war," The Washington Post's David Weigel noted Sunday."



They created a power vacuum by pulling out in the dead of night, and then willfully ignored rapid advances by the Taliban. Nobody is disagreeing that it was correct to withdraw, but the handling of this has been nothing but sheer incompetence. Saigon didn't have people so desperate that they were holding onto the outside of airplanes and then falling to their death.


Saigon had tons of very desperate people hoping to be airlifted and didn't get the chance, I don't know what Kool-aid you are drinking.


They didn't cling to the outside of airplanes.





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