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bighairymike: The venerable WSJ nails it. ... The Taliban control the country and are reimposing feudal Islamist rule.

Well, perhaps we should blame the guy who negotiated directly with the Taliban in nine rounds of talks over 18 months -- at one point, he secretly invited the Taliban to the presidential retreat at Camp David on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- ignoring the Afghan government, to strike the Doha Agreement: DonOLD Trump.

Trump agreed to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners.

This deal required taking the Taliban’s promises on faith since the peace agreement came with no enforcement mechanism for the Taliban to keep its word.

Overall, it was a pretty good deal for the Taliban, critics said. “Trump all but assured the future course of events would reflect the Taliban’s interests far more than the United States,” Miller writes. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s second national security adviser, has recently called it “a surrender agreement with the Taliban.” Another member of Trump’s National Security Council said it was “a very weak agreement.”

Facts are pesky things.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20...

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