Biden NEVER Had A Clear Exit Strategy From Afghanistan

Via America’s Lawyer: After President Biden finally pulls the plug on the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, Taliban forces quickly overwhelm the country – undoing the past 20 years in a matter of weeks. While American troops are able to evacuate, they leave behind countless Afghan civilians that are faced with the choice of either fleeing the country or living under Taliban rule. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The Taliban has taken Afghanistan after the US pulled our troops out of the country, capping off a 20 year war that the US had no business fighting in the first place. Farron Cousins from trial lawyer magazine joins me now to explain why. You know, Farron, it's not, it's not the fact, we needed to get out of Afghanistan. We've made our, gave it our best shot. We needed to get out. We accomplished a lot, but had to get out. And so, so we have the collapse. It's the exit strategy that is the issue here. There was no plan. It was like a bunch of buffoons said, hey, let's get this done before the midterms. We got to do it in a hurry and look what's happened.

You know, it's funny you use the term exit strategy because that's something we haven't heard since the Bush administration, when everybody at the time said, well, what's your exit strategy? How do we get out of Iraq? How do we get out of Afghanistan? And at the time we didn't have one and apparently here we are, you know, 20 years after the war began and we still couldn't come up with a decent exit strategy to get our men and women out of this country. And like you said, they, I, it's like they rang a dinner bell and said, all right, everybody get out of here.

Well, I mean, you know, it is midterm, but we're talking about midterm issues here. So this, this, this bonehead general Milley right, tells the public, we can do this. This is no problem. Biden joins in and says, oh, I'm not worried about the Taliban. We're stabilized enough. The president of the company loads up as much cash as he can get into his car in his helicopter, steals all the cash, leaves town, 90,000 Afghans who helped the United States for, for about 20 years, stabilize that country, they all are now being hunted down by a pack of wild dogs, psychopath, wild dogs, door to door. Is this, they've got a checklist. They have a checklist, Farron. This is, this is our exit strategy.

Right. And we knew this is what would happen if we exited the country like this. And we had, you know, like we said, more than enough time to do this. You know, you go back to February 2020. That's when Trump, you know, worked out this deal with the Taliban saying, listen, we'll release some of your prisoners. You agree to not attack us. You don't attack NATO forces. We'll be gone from the country in 14 months. Now the issue with that deal, however, is that it obviously excluded the Afghan government. They were not involved in the negotiations or the discussion. So that was a, a big problem with it. But still 14 months we'll be out of the country, which would have been April of 2021. So we had the time and we had the opportunity. This was something that should have been discussed very clearly during the transition period and Biden should have known from day one, you're on the clock here. You've got to get this done. You have time. I mean, that's, you have time.

That's the point, that's the point, isn't it? There was a bipartisan, you're familiar with this.

Yes.

It was a bipartisan committee that was put together to figure out how do we pull out of Afghanistan, bipartisan. They came up with a plan. It was going to take 16 to 18 months. All right. The plan's been on the table a long time. The plan was, first of all, we have to create a beach head. The beach head, the beach head is where, we're, we're not, we're not, we don't have Taliban that are attacking the airport as we're trying to get people out of the airport.

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