Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division gather their equipment before boarding a CH-47F Chinook that serves with the Task Force Flying Dragons, or 1st General Support Aviation Battalion., 25th Avn. Regiment, 16th Combat Avn. Brigade, in the Nawa Valley, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Photo: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Houston | FlickrCC
(CNN)The Pentagon said Thursday that the Biden administration would not commit to a full drawdown of troops from Afghanistan by May because the Taliban have not honored the commitments they made in their deal with the United States.
That agreement, negotiated under the Trump administration and signed in February 2020, calls for the militant group to reduce violence and cut ties with terrorist organizations, among other demands. If the conditions of the deal were met, US forces would leave Afghanistan by May 2021. The US force level in Afghanistan went down to 2,500 troops just days before former President Donald Trump left office.
"The Taliban have not met their commitments," Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said at a news briefing. "Without them meeting their commitments to renounce terrorism and to stop the violent attacks on the Afghan national security forces, and by dint of that the Afghan people, it's very hard to see a specific way forward for the negotiated settlement."
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WNU Editor: You do not need to be a genius to know that the Biden administration is now laying the ground work to break the peace agreement with the Taliban. And there is a lot of momentum for this to happen .... NATO countries want to keep forces in Afghanistan but need U.S. support: Afghan president (Reuters).
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20 years and virtually nothing to show for it, save for a lot more national debt.
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ReplyDeleteThe EU population is 447 million people.
The US population is 330 million people.
We are told what a powerhouse the EU is an economic powerhouse and better than the US. At least we were told this before the crisis of 2011.
So here is the question. Why is not the EU funding 58% of the Afghan war or providing 58% of the soldiers?
Trump was right to demand that NATO partners spend more on defense. We need more Trump not less.
Just as Trump demanded Germany spend more on defense, the EU should spend more blood and gold, if they think Afghanistan is so god damned important.
I don't see Merkel and Macron doing anything except turning Europe into Afghanistan West and alternatively ordering and beseeching the US to do this or that.
Staying in Afghanistan which has no strategic interest will bring us to more losses of American lives and more spending. But the leftist media's will find that genius.
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