Gen. McMaster says Trump bears some responsibility for chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/former-trump-national-security-adviser-mcmaster-afghanistan/index.html

22 Comments

  1. Yeah… blame the guy who has been out of office for nearly four years instead of the two people who were in charge.

    It’s getting pathetic at this point imo

  2. Debonair_courtezan on

    McMaster’s statement underscores the ongoing debate about Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol riot.

  3. I can’t believe the media is still trying to paint this as a fail. Was there a tragic loss of life in a war zone? Yes of course.

    But we got 100,000 people out in a few days as the city collapsed around us.

    And WE GOT OUT. Obama and Dump didn’t have the balls to do it.

    It was a win and the media failed miserably. Yet again.

  4. FuckNewRedditPopups on

    And then he hopes Trump “learns from his first experience” and know by now that “Putin is not his friend”. What a spineless creature this general is! Can’t just tell it like it is: Trump is ready to sell your country to Putin, don’t vote for him if you want to live a good life.

  5. isthisreallife211111 on

    Not to mention for sparking escalations in Israel due to his ill considered embassy move stunt

  6. Pretty sure this fucking guy is voting for the incompetent, convicted felon and pathological/compulsive liar.

    Fuck him. You couldn’t pay me to buy his fucking book.

  7. The trump who negotiated the withdrawal with the taliban and didn’t even involve the functioning Afghanistan administration in the talks, that president trump???

  8. outisnemonymous on

    Trump surrendered to the Taliban without leaving enough troops for an orderly withdrawal.Then left Biden holding the bag.

  9. JustYerAverage on

    He bears ALL of that responsibility. Anyone who says different is ignorant or disingenuous.

    He designed it to fuck Biden. He’s a traitorous cancer and should be treated as such.

  10. Sheepish_conundrum on

    Some? Trumps withdrawal date was the day after inauguration. It should have been done at that point.

  11. Have they done polls on this? Do other Americans actually care? I’m just happy we’re out of there.

  12. Yes the man (Trump) who came up with the treaty with the Taliban to have a cease fire with them (excluded the acting Afghanistan Government) and then systematically removed our troops so only a fraction remained (2,500) to be removed, per the treaty, months after he left office… is responsible for the withdrawal… that he created and enacted… Yes that person might have some responsibility.

    Biden’s choices where to fully leave and follow Trump’s arrangement/dates agreed to with the Taliban or have the remaining 2,500 troops be attacked by tens of thousands of Taliban fighters and then be forced to re-invade.

    So either follow Trump’s plan or potentially lose thousands of US service men and women and then re-invade spending untold billions if not ultimately trillions more and keeping us locked in there indefinitely.

  13. The Taliban doesn’t even want to hear a woman’s voice. There was never going to be a peaceful withdrawal. Thats why Obama and Trump failed to leave. Biden got us out of there. It needed to happen a decade prior.