Retried General knows who is responsible for Afghan fiasco

 Karen Townsend:

Gen. McMaster puts blame for Afghanistan disaster squarely on Biden - "self-defeat"

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 McMaster says the war in Afghanistan ended in “self-defeat”. He said everyone involved in the war management during the last 20 years bears some responsibility but it didn’t have to end this way. He calls it “a one-year war fought twenty times over.” The decision for withdrawal has been a costly one. McMaster said that Biden “doubled down” on Trump’s original plan and “failed to reverse” it. The fact is, too, that Trump’s agreement with the Taliban – an agreement that wasn’t a formal agreement – was already null and void due to Taliban conduct before Biden set his withdrawal operation into play.

“And of course, what’s sad about it is this war ended in self-defeat, Chuck. I mean we had a sustainable effort in place several years ago, that if we had sustained it, we could have prevented what’s happening now,” McMaster told host Chuck Todd. “But instead, what we did, Chuck, is actually we surrendered to a jihadist organization and assumed that there would be no consequences for that. And we’re seeing the consequences today.” McMaster calls it a surrender to a jihadi organization. He’s not wrong.

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I think Trump would be giving the Taliban the same treatment he gave ISIS in Syria at this point.  In that war, Obama had been playing patty-cake with them for years and let the amateurs on his staff direct the war rather than the military.  He unleashed the military and in a matter of months ISIS was defeated and its leader was dead.