Taliban won, U.S. lost; time to leave Afghanistan

America hates to lose. We quickly knocked the Taliban from Afghan power in 2001 following the 911 attacks. They didn’t do 911. The Saudis’ fingerprints are all over the attacks but we couldn’t knock off our best weapons customer and key ally in changing out the hated Iranian regime.

Instead, we directed our fury and firepower against the Taliban for not stopping the portion of the planning that occurred in Afghanistan. That would be like blaming the U.S. government for not stopping Timothy McVeigh’s attack that killed 168 at the Murrah Federal Building in 1995.

Near 20 years later the Taliban in poised to take back Afghanistan from their American invaders and the corrupt, servile government the U.S. supports. Trump’s greatest foreign war move was negotiating an agreement with the Taliban 13 months ago to leave that war torn, failed nation in 15 months.

That date is just 6 weeks off. Part of the deal was for the Taliban to stop killing U.S. troops defiling their country. They kept that bargain but not the lesser one of cooperating with the U.S. puppet government still pretending to govern Afghanistan.

Biden, echoing Trump on everything Obama, says Trump made a bad deal. He’s signaled he wants another 6 months to ‘think it over’. The U.S. war party, their hair on fire over Trump’s wise deal, is cooling off a bit.

Biden is wrong. If, as expected, he kicks the can of criminal war down the road for another 6 months, U.S. troops will be targeted again and some will die.

Biden ends every speech with the delusional plea for God to protect our troops. But it’s all on Biden. He can protect our troops by fulfilling Trump’s sane move 13 months ago and getting every last one out May 1.