1 The GOPs Phony Complaints About Afghanistan
- Author: slate.com
- Published Date: 02/22/2022
- Review: 4.95 (694 vote)
- Summary: · They’ve professed dismay that thousands of jailed Taliban fighters were released from prison, that al-Qaida operatives are still in Afghanistan,
- Matching search results: Eight months later, Biden is completing the withdrawal, and Republicans have done a 180. They act as though they had nothing to do with the pullout or its consequences. “It’s humiliating that the Taliban now controls not just Afghanistan’s …
2 Mike Pompeo takes his own arrows over the Afghanistan collapse
- Author: politico.com
- Published Date: 09/05/2021
- Review: 4.76 (532 vote)
- Summary: · Trump’s former secretary of State played a key role in the deal with the Taliban. He says Biden botched it. Other Republicans aren’t letting
- Matching search results: “It shows he’s a Biden critic and a fighter, because that’s become so important in Republican politics these days, but that also there he is front and center more than anybody backing up Donald Trump,” said Republican strategist Doug Heye of …
3 The U.S. deal with the Taliban destroyed Afghans’ military morale, a new report says
- Author: npr.org
- Published Date: 01/04/2022
- Review: 4.56 (470 vote)
- Summary: · Morale across Afghanistan’s military was “destroyed” when then-President Trump made a deal with the Taliban in 2020 and President Biden
- Matching search results: “We never really trained them on logistics,” Sopko said. “Their logistics were horrible. Now, this isn’t to mean that the average Afghan soldier or police officer didn’t fight. They fought very hard to the end. But they felt abandoned — and they …
4 Trump officials back away from 2020 Taliban peace deal after withdrawal chaos
- Author: axios.com
- Published Date: 08/16/2022
- Review: 4.37 (496 vote)
- Summary: · The big picture: The Trump administration agreed to withdraw from the country by May 1, 2021, if the Taliban negotiated a peace agreement with
- Matching search results: The big picture: The Trump administration agreed to withdraw from the country by May 1, 2021, if the Taliban negotiated a peace agreement with the Afghan government and promised to prevent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State from …