INSANITY Report: Taliban Offered Biden Control of Kabul, but He Declined

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Report: Taliban Offered Biden Control of Kabul, but He Declined
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Report: Taliban Offered Biden Control of Kabul, but He Declined
Paul Bois29 Aug 2021
A U.S. soldier holds a sign indicating a gate is closed as hundreds of people gather some holding documents, near an evacuation control checkpoint on the perimeter of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Western nations warned Thursday of a possible attack on Kabul’s …
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The chaos in Afghanistan could have reportedly been avoided altogether if President Joe Biden had accepted the Taliban’s initial offer for the U.S. to have full control of Kabul and the airport.

According to a report from the Washington Post, as the Taliban began taking control of Afghanistan, senior U.S. military leaders met with Taliban political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Doha, Qatar, where an offer was made for the United States to have control of Kabul until all U.S. troops had withdrawn; the offer was declined. From the report:



In a hastily arranged in-person meeting, senior U.S. military leaders in Doha – including McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command – spoke with Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban’s political wing.
“We have a problem,” Baradar said, according to the U.S. official. “We have two options to deal with it: You [the United States military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it.”
Throughout the day, Biden had remained resolute in his decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan. The collapse of the Afghan government hadn’t changed his mind.
McKenzie, aware of those orders, told Baradar that the U.S. mission was only to evacuate American citizens, Afghan allies and others at risk. The United States, he told Baradar, needed the airport to do that.
On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other U.S. officials: The United States could have the airport until Aug. 31. But the Taliban would control the city.
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As the days unfolded, the security in Kabul became increasingly hostile, culminating in the terrorist attack last week that killed 13 American servicemembers and 160 Afghans. According to a report from Politico last week, the Biden administration entrusted the Taliban so intensely with securing the city that they were allegedly given a list of names of American citizens, green card holders, and Afghan allies in the region.



When pressed about this list, Biden did not deny its existence:

There have been occasions where our military has contacted their military counterparts in the Taliban and said, for example, “This bus is coming through with X number of people on it made up of the following group of people. We want you to let that bus or that group through.”
So yes there have been occasions like that, and to the best of my knowledge, in those cases, when the bulk of that has occurred, they have been let through. But I can’t tell you with any servitude that there has actually been a list of names. There may have been, but I know of no circumstance. That doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
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Republicans on Twitter ceased on the Washington Post’s report and put the Biden administration on blast for not taking the Taliban’s initial offer:
 
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bbbuddy said:
Well, the more humiliating for the US, the better for the commies, here and abroad. Right?
THIS ISN'T STUPIDITY, THIS IS MALICE.
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Fixed it for you. I've been saying since the "Election" we were Frelled. The Economy, the Sweet&Sour Sniffles and the Gestapo measurres getting implemented. Seems I'm talking to a room full of the Deaf and Blind at ties.
 
artichoke

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It appears Biden has encountered substantial opposition within the military to this withdrawal. They wanted to stay. That much is clear, but maybe they did more than gripe. They can also sabotage plans.

Also the press writing about the withdrawal wants to stay. WaPo has rarely seen a war they didn't like, for example. Do we expect fair reporting from them? Why should they start now?

In this scenario I can see why Biden wouldn't want the US military in charge of anything in Afghanistan. Retreating to Kabul isn't much of a retreat, because all we've ever really controlled is Kabul, and that was iffy to some extent. But without Bagram, maybe Kabul is hard to defend. We wouldn't want to be trapped in Kabul, have somebody Taliban / ISIS / China / Iran bomb the runway of the airport, and have no way out. The Soviet Union built Bagram. They seemed to think it was essential to their own unsuccessful effort to control the country.

Our military decided to keep Kabul and give up Bagram, as we heard. In light of the above, I wonder whether that made sense.

So it makes sense to evac from Kabul too. Out means out.
 
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packyderms_wife said:
The fact that anyone is surprised is what baffles me. Look at what he did, wrote some stupid law or whatever, when it came to evacuating Hanoi. It's the same shit just a different day. puddin cup answers to the chinese and always has, not to us!
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I've heard that story too. I'd like to know more, and to know where Hanoi Jane stood on the issue. But I'm still not convinced he is doing everything wrong in Kabul. I am sure of this much: the press doesn't like withdrawing. They didn't like it when Trump planned it (now you hear nice noises about Trump, but that's just to embarrass Biden), and they don't like it when Biden is doing it.
 
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