Top US general says Afghan collapse can be traced to Dodgy Trump-Taliban deal

The Doha agreement, signed in February 2020, set a date for the US to fully withdraw troops by May 2021

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Just like with Nixon’s ‘Vietnamization’ which led to 35,000 excess American dead

Guardian: The collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces can be traced to a 2020 agreement between the Taliban and the Trump administration that promised a complete US troop withdrawal, senior Pentagon officials have told Congress.

Gen Frank McKenzie, the head of central command, told the House armed services committee that once the US troop presence was pushed below 2,500 as part of President Joe Biden’s decision in April to complete a total withdrawal by September, the unraveling of the US-backed Afghan government accelerated.

“The signing of the Doha agreement had a really pernicious effect on the government of Afghanistan and on its military, psychological more than anything else, but we set a date – certain for when we were going to leave and when they could expect all assistance to end,” McKenzie said.

He was referring to a 29 February 2020, agreement that the Trump administration signed with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, in which the US promised to fully withdraw its troops by May 2021 and the Taliban committed to several conditions, including stopping attacks on American and coalition forces. The stated objective was to promote a peace negotiation between the Taliban and the Afghan government, but that diplomatic effort never gained traction before Biden took office in January.



McKenzie said he also had believed “for quite a while” that if the United States reduced the number of its military advisers in Afghanistan below 2,500, the Kabul government inevitably would collapse and that “the military would follow”.  Read more…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/29/frank-mckenzie-doha-agreement-trump-taliban

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  2. Biden had no choice other than what he did, pull the plug on this fiasco. Israel nuked the USA on 9/11 and got away with it. They and US chosenites of all stripes should shoulder all the blame for destroying Afghanistan. That was, after all, why we invaded, that and the opium.

  3. Yeah, because everything else the US did in Afghanistan was a resounding success! Listen, I’m no fan of Trump… far from it, but come on man! To blame the failure in Afghanistan on Trump is stupid.

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