Taliban were in violation of the deal they did with Trump when Biden did his cut and run

 National Review:

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The agreement Pompeo signed in Doha in February 2020 established a U.S. withdrawal deadline of May 2021 — provided the Taliban met a series of conditions. Making a complete break from al-Qaeda was among them.

Critics of the deal have said that it was naïve in the extreme to accept the Taliban’s word that they would break with al-Qaeda, considering their deep historical ties, and have argued that negotiating directly with the Taliban undermined and demoralized the Afghan government. According to former CIA counter-terrorism chief Doug London, Pompeo ignored politically inconvenient intelligence reports which predicted the current reality on the ground: as of June, al-Qaeda maintained a presence in 15 Afghan provinces, according to a United Nations report.

However, having served as CIA director before taking over as secretary of state, Pompeo says he was very aware of intelligence reports that al-Qaeda was still deeply engaged in Afghanistan when he signed the Doha agreement. He stressed that the May withdrawal deadline was “conditions-based,” and implied that a second-term Trump administration would have maintained a small military footprint on the ground past the May deadline, once it became clear the Taliban weren’t holding up their end of the bargain.

“I never believed a thing they said,” Pompeo said of the Taliban’s vow to sever ties with al-Qaeda. “It was a condition.”

What McMaster and other critics are missing, Pompeo said, is that the Trump administration was committed to maintaining the deterrence structure that allowed the U.S. to draw down from roughly 15,000 troops in the country, when the deal was signed, to just 2,500 when Trump left office.

“We went from 15,000 troops to 2,500 troops and we still had order in Afghanistan,” he said. “There’s almost triple that number of American forces on the ground now and there’s complete chaos. So when someone asks ‘could you have maintained this?’ My response is ‘for six months after the agreement was signed we didn’t get a single American killed. We didn’t have a single Taliban attack on an American.’”

Critics of the deal have argued that the Taliban were merely biding their time, holding off on attacking Americans to encourage withdrawal while using the resulting excess manpower to increase offensives against our Afghan allies. Pompeo acknowledges the Taliban repeatedly broke the agreement while Trump was still in office, but claims they would have gradually learned to meet their obligations thanks to targeted American retaliation.

“They broke the agreement a number of times: they moved forces where they weren’t supposed to move, they put certain elements of the Afghan forces at risk. And every time that happened, General Scotty Miller crushed them,” he said. “We would call them and say ‘you did X, we responded with Y,’ stop doing X.’ And we modeled a deterrence mechanism that told the Taliban if you push the Americans under Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo, there’ll be an enormous price to pay.”

“Contrast that with the Biden team, they pushed on the Americans and we retreated,” he continued. “As they took outlying areas and pushed into provincial capitals, the American military wasn’t brought to bear.”

So, had Pompeo been running the show under a second Trump term, would he have resorted to surging in more troops in response to Taliban advances?

“I don’t think we would have had to,” he said.

Instead, the U.S. could have provided additional support to Afghan forces in the form of artillery, air support, and intelligence, while maintaining a small footprint — an argument that London, among others, has dismissed as fanciful, though some lawmakers and analysts suggest it could have been feasible.
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“[Biden] says there was an unconditional commitment to leave in May. That’s simply not true. Read the document,” he continued. “What we would have done is we would have continued to apply pressure.”

The degree to which the Taliban violated their commitment to break with Islamic extremists has become clearer in recent days. The al Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani network is reportedly running security inside Kabul, and American officials fear that a resurgent Islamic State will begin to attack the airport to escalate the conflict. Without a significant U.S. troop presence, some argue that Afghanistan is destined to become the new headquarters for global jihad.

Could this outcome really have been prevented without sending thousands more American troops into Afghanistan in defiance of Trump’s campaign promises?

Pompeo says unequivocally “yes.”
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It appears that Biden did not care that the Taliban were in violation of the agreement that Biden claimed to be bound by.  That sounds like he is just using the agreement as an excuse for his screw-up. 

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