How many Afghans did Trump plan on evacuating? Kentuck

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kentuck (102,806 posts)


How many Afghans did Trump plan on evacuating?

On January 15th, 2021, it was reported that he had cut the troop strength down to 2500 troops. It had been 11 months since he made his Doha Agreement with the Taliban. He did not want to make any commitment until the election was over. He would have had 3 1/2 months to complete his mission by May 1st.

There is no doubt but that Joe Biden will receive tons of criticism for not getting out more Afghanis but it appears now that Trump had no plan to evacuate any Afghanis? He had armed the "mighty" Afghani Army to the teeth with the most modern infantry weaponry. Now we see all those weapons in the hands of the Taliban. (He might have evacuated a few hundred Afghanis and he would have bragged about how he got out "almost a thousand" of the brave warriors who helped us in our war effort) The media would have accepted that as some great accomplishment.

The deadline of May 1st came and went. America was not focused on Afghanistan. They were focused on the pandemic and getting the economy back on track. Biden wanted to get the troops out by September 11th, the iconic date that led to the ill-fated adventure in Afghanistan.

But the Taliban did not wait for that date. They advised the Afghan President, Ghani, to leave the country. The Afghan army disintegrated and many joined the Taliban, with their new weapons. The Taliban took over the city of Kabul.

Biden had to send in more troops to help with the evacuation. The US took over the flight operations at the airport and set up their diplomatic HQ's in the airport, after they had to flee the US Embassy.

So far, the latest report is that 82,000 people have been evacuated thru the airport, despite being surrounded by Taliban soldiers and reported ISIS-K terrorists. It is one of the largest airlift evacuations in history. It is quite an accomplishment up to this moment.

However, there are still US helicopters and equipment that must be taken out or destroyed before the last remaining troops depart. The most dangerous part of the operation still remains. It is a volatile and dangerous situation.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215779533

Orange man bad!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

No mention of the fact Biden canceled the May 1st deal.

And if Biden "had to send more" troops that makes his debacle all the more pronounced.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Camping with Kentuck... trying to light wet twigs in the rain...

Trump's plans all involved leaving Bagram Air-base open.  Keeping the F-15's and spy-drones flying. 

[USA4ME]

Their rewrite of history and on-going events are so looney as to be laughable, which regular people are doing.

I can tell you one thing Trump would have done; he would have made sure all Americans that are civilians and those Afghans who helped the US for the last 20 years were evacuated months in advance and not in the last few days. There would have been zero cases of Americans stranded and either unable to leave or having to beg the Taliban to let them leave. The last act would have been to remove the military.

Unfortunately, there will be numerous stories of Americans left behind because Biden, and the Dems in general, are incompetent. These reports will either be ignored or glossed over by the primitives, but theirs is not the real world. Theirs is a site where it's only amusing to watch them try and pretend as if what's really going on isn't really happening.

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[Zathras]

kentuck (102,806 posts)

How many Afghans did Trump plan on evacuating?

We'll never know will we DUmbass. You and the rest of the mouth breathing, oxygen thieving, wastes of skin replaced President Trump, who had a plan in place to peacefully withdraw from Afghanistan, with Gropey Joe Biden, a feckless, weak, incompetent puppet who threw out the plan in place just because it was from his predecessor and replaced it with nothing but chaos. The blood of any Americans that are harmed or killed by the Taliban because of this chaos, whether those left behind or in future terror attacks originating in Afghanistan, will be on the hands of Gropey Joe, his administration and the voters that put him in office.

[SVPete]

No mention of the fact Biden canceled the May 1st deal.
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Nor of closing Bagram so it could not be used for evacuations - more runways, greater plane-handling capacity, more routes to airports.

DUpipo can all they want, fantasizing about what Trump would do (as if they ever understood him!   ). The Kabul Kluster-F is reality, and it's 100% LIEden's.

[ADsOutburst]

How many Americans does Biden plan on evacuating?

[Zathras]

How many Americans does Biden plan on evacuating?

Judging by how it's being handled as few as possible.

[DLR Pyro]

kentuck (102,806 posts)


How many Afghans did Trump plan on evacuating?

Irrelevant.  Trump is not President thanks to election rigging that was done by the democrat party last year.

You broke it, you bought it