In a recent interview with Mike Pompeo, he said the Taliban was told by Trump that, if they tried to take over the country by force, there would be military repurcussions. There is no way Trump would have allowed this national embarrassment.
Just remember that Biden was part of the Democrat Congress who refused to offer more aid to South Vietnam when the North was invading.
He also advised Obama when it came to taking out Bin Laden - he was against it.
Joe is a one man national defense disaster.
"In a recent interview with Mike Pompeo, he said the Taliban was told by Trump that, if they tried to take over the country by force, there would be military repercussions.
There is no way Trump would have allowed this national embarrassment."
Well, the man who was Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2011-12 and served as Ambassador to Iraq under Bush actually disagrees with Pompeo, and apparently you. In fact, it sounds like he's not only blaming Trump but likely Pompeo as well, since Pompeo probably signed off on the decision to hold peace talks with the Taliban and exclude the Afghan Govt from being involved...
"Trump had
planned to meet with Taliban leaders and the Afghan president at Camp David in 2019. After the meeting was canceled, a U.S. representative for Afghanistan met with Taliban leaders in Qatar in February 2020, where both sides signed a
peace agreement.
It’s at that meeting that Crocker believes the current situation in Afghanistan was born. Not only were there no representatives from the Afghan government present at the meeting, but Afghanistan was asked to make certain concessions to the Taliban."
The Taliban have been gaining ground in Afghanistan as US troops withdraw from the country after 20 years.
news.yahoo.com
I guess you served in Vietnam and I respect your service, but by '72 the concept of throwing additional good money after bad to prop up an unpopular regime made no sense at all. America is supposed to stand for the right of indigenous people to control their own destiny, and drawing a fake dividing line between North and South Vietnam as a means of perpetuating French colonial rule in Indochina was a betrayal of our own democratic ideals...
Vietnam is not Korea. Ho Chi Minh was a South Vietnam born revolutionary who sought US assistance in his struggle for Vietnamese independence from the French long before he turned to the more receptive Soviets for aid. If you hate voter fraud, take a look at Diem's victory in 1955, when he supposedly garnered 600,000 votes in Saigon, a city of some 45,000. One of the provisions of the 1955 referendum called for a national election with a single President in charge of all of Vietnam, but Diem refused to honor the commitment because he knew Ho was far more popular...
The French got whipped and left in 1954, and for some unfathomable reason, Ike thought getting the US involved made sense. Not just blaming the GOP here, as both Kennedy and LBJ continued to get us deeper and deeper into that quagmire. But unless we were interested in establishing an Imperialist outpost in SE Asia our involvement in Vietnam never made any sense.
The Govt in the South was unpopular and corrupt thruout its history. So trying to paint Biden as some sort of pariah for refusing to sink more money into a wildly unpopular and incompetent regime in the South in 1972, is not going to resonate with any educated person...