Did I defend it? I’m pretty ambivalent about it to tell the truth but I’m smart enough to understand the dynamics of the situation. Trump released 5000 Taliban prisoners and promised we would leave Afghanistan in 6 months. Within that group of prisoners is the near complete leadership that now controls Afghanistan. By releasing them before we left it allowed them to organize themselves, cut deals with the Afghan army to lay down so the Taliban could quickly take over.Why are you compelled to defend trading a guilty arms dealing terrorist for a guilty WNBA player?
Did you condemn Trump for his actions? You sure condemned Biden for following through with Trump’s promise. Trump had drawn down our forces to < 2500 troops. Most of those there to train the Afghan army. That equipment that was left, it was there for the army we had spent nearly 20 years training. Were we supposed to take their equipment? Did we know they would lay down? To have removed it would have required we send additional troops In violation of the agreement we(Trump) had made. In exchange for our promise to withdraw the Taliban promised to not attack our forces.