VP Harris’s Campaign Deceptively Attempts to Shift Blame to Trump for the Disastrous Biden/Harris Wi

[mystery-ak]

September 14, 2024
VP Harris’s Campaign Deceptively Attempts to Shift Blame to Trump for the Disastrous Biden/Harris Withdrawal from Afghanistan
By Allan J. Favish

On Sept. 7, 2024, CBS News reported on statements by a national security spokesman for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign about former President Donald Trump’s agreement with the Taliban regarding troop withdrawals and President Joe Biden and Harris’ subsequent withdrawal from Afghanistan:

The campaign argues that Trump’s deal created a ‘virtually impossible’ deadline and left “the Biden-Harris administration with zero plans for an orderly withdrawal — only a dangerous, costly mess.”

“Trump shamelessly attacks the vice president because he hopes he can trick the country into forgetting that his own actions put troops in harm’s way,” Harris campaign national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein told CBS News.  “Trump wanted to bring the Taliban to Camp David just days before September 11th—think about that.  He cut a bad deal with the very same people who violently took over Afghanistan and led to the collapse of the Afghan government.”

Apparently unmentioned by the Harris campaign to CBS News, and unreported in CBS’s article is that the agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban was not a Treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate. Therefore, it had no legal force as to President Joe Biden, as reported by the Associated Press in August 2021:

But Biden can go only so far in claiming the agreement boxed him in.  It had an escape clause: The U.S.  could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed.  They did, but Biden chose to stay in it, although he delayed the complete pullout from May to September.

Chris Miller, acting defense secretary in the final months of the Trump administration, chafed at the idea that Biden was handcuffed by the agreement.

“If he thought the deal was bad, he could have renegotiated.  He had plenty of opportunity to do that if he so desired,” Miller, a top Pentagon counterterrorism official at the time the Doha deal was signed, said in an interview.

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[Smokin Joe]

In may the mountain passes would have remained impassable. By September, with the activity well advertised, the Taliban and anyone else concerned had had all summer to gather and plan.

Timing can be everything in a military operation.

Also, packing up and leaving from a military airbase (as Trump had planned) had great advantages over performing the same tasks from a civilian airfield, especially in terms of security.