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Interesting article from Nov 17, 2020 that confirms my suspicions
By Donna
August 31, 2021 4:17 pm
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Trump team looks to box in Biden on foreign policy by lighting too many fires to put out

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The Trump team's refusal to work with the incoming team stands in stark contrast with the conduct of previous administrations during transitions. In late 2016 and early 2017, the Obama administration finalized plans for an offensive against the Islamic State but handed over final decisions to the incoming Trump administration because it would be executing the operation and dealing with the aftermath.

Officials in President George W. Bush's administration had done the same for Barack Obama. Stephen Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, said, "I had retained a whole stack of actions that either the Bush administration could take as we left office, or we could hold and let the Obama administration make those decisions when they came into office." [...]

Acting Defense Secretary Miller announced Tuesday that the US will withdraw 2,500 more troops from both Afghanistan and Iraq by January 15, 2021, five days before Biden takes office.

There are currently about 4,500 US troops in Afghanistan and 3,000 in Iraq.
Miller said the withdrawal "does not equate change" to US policies or objectives.

Some observers, pointing to Trump's rush to pull troops over unanimous objections from the military's most senior leaders as well as NATO commanders, question whether the President and his officials are trying to salt the earth for Biden.

"The price for leaving too soon or in an uncoordinated way could be very high.
Afghanistan risks becoming once again a platform for international terrorists to plan and organize attacks on our homelands. And ISIS could rebuild in Afghanistan the terror caliphate it lost in Syria and Iraq," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement to CNN.


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Comments on "Interesting article from Nov 17, 2020 that confirms my suspicions ":

  1. by Curt_Anderson on August 31, 2021 7:17 pm
    My suspicions about Trump have been proven repeatedly. I always suspect that if there's an underhanded way of doing something, or a false statement to be made, that is the path that Trump would take.

    Incidentally Joe Biden has been taking a lot of grief for the optics of our evacuation of Afghanistan. I wonder though how the mechanics of the evacuation are really the responsibility of the president? It seems to me that at some point the general say to Joe Biden "yes sir, Mr. President we will carry out your orders however we will need five thousand troops to secure the airport, X number of planes, etc." It's not the job of the president to work out the logistics of a military operation.



  2. by HatetheSwamp on September 1, 2021 3:34 am

    TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP...TRUMP!!!!!!

    To everyone in the reasoning world, Trump is less than an afterthought.

    Besides Joe, who needs Trump to blame, no one ever even thinks about Trump these days.

    Do you know how to tell that you have TDS? This is it!


  3. by Donna on September 1, 2021 8:10 am
    No presidency operates in a vacuum. All administrations have to deal with what their predecessor left them.


  4. by HatetheSwamp on September 1, 2021 8:18 am

    Precisely, Donna. But were Dems doing the:

    BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH...BUSH thing ,in 09?

    Or, Trumpsters:

    O O O O O O O O O O O O...O seven months after the election?


  5. by Donna on September 1, 2021 8:56 am
    I have no idea. I'm suppose many were.


  6. by Donna on September 1, 2021 8:59 am
    I wish this forum had a better edit feature. The only posts we can edit here are for topics we started.


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