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Originally Posted by nomadking
 Actually Obama started the process.
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Trump maintained the presence. Why didn't Obama fulfil his promise to withdraw all troops? |
I don’t especially care what Obama’s reasons were. The point is moot. You have however illustrated my point for me, so thank you for that.
Promises can be reneged upon when the facts on the ground change. Biden could have rowed back on the US commitment to get out of Kabul but chose not to so as to nod towards a date on the calendar.
Trump set in train a disastrous series of events by promising a group of armed religious fanatics that he would get American forces out of the country they wished to rule, giving them ample time to plan how to exploit the situation. Biden allowed those events to come to their inevitable climax because he was so fixated on the historic opportunity presented by associating his name with 9/11 he was deaf to all advice from well-informed people who only wanted to tell him things he didn’t want to hear.