1) Orange and Manly Mike Pompeo make the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban in 2020.
2) Agreement provides for our complete withdrawal by 5/1/ 21.
3) The agreement gets some but not that much public attention. Public opinion on all sides supports us leaving.
4) The administration and the Pentagon have no viable contingency planning for the circumstances of an immediate and complete collapse of the Afghan army as soon as we left.
5) The administration is slow walking or no walking the visa process for the Afghans who helped us thanks mostly to evil Stephen Miller.
6) Orange gets bounced on his ear last November and was focusing on trying to stay in office legally before and illegally after the election.
7) Biden inherits this shit sammy on 1/20.
8) The new administration does realize that the May withdrawal date is unworkable and pushes it back to the end of August.
9) The new administration otherwise chooses to comply with the agreement again with zero planning about what to do if there is an immediate collapse.
10) If the new administration had appreciated these circumstances they could have further delayed our departure to the end of the year and made proper plans.
11) Biden who wants to get out as fast as Orange did, doesn’t appreciate the risk of an immediate collapse, and there are no such plans developed.
12) As the withdrawal date comes closer, the Afghan government and military start to panic. The administration had or should have had intelligence on the situation. They either did have that intelligenve and ignored it, or it wasn’t given. In any event, a huge failure their part.
13) The circumstances of how the military conducted the withdrawal would have been the same in May as they were in August. In other words if the Afghan military collapsed, this was bound to happen. It wasn’t a special plan drawn up just for Biden.
14) Biden bears the brunt of the blame for what happened. He didn’t have to remain a member of the blind mice club, He could have and should have had contingency planning for what happened occurring as fast as it did. He also could and should have delayed our pullout until these things were addressed. It happened on his watch and he is the captain of the ship of state. Like Orange before him, he was likely focusing more on domestic agenda items to the exclusion of this problem. Orange gets a strong assist on the goal though. Just wanted to get out, also didn’t give a shit about the consequences and just handed the mess over with no transition or planning. He was to busy whining about stolen elections and trying to concoct a plan to steal it himself.
15) it’s almost a miracle that so far no Americans have been killed and the embassy was securely and safely evacuated. We are also getting a lot of Afghans out of there. If he pulls this off, Biden will deserve credit for it. I think we all hope and pray that it continues.