[Andrew NDB]

Trump did plan and agree to leave on 5/1. But even if he'd kept to that, there's every reason to believe he'd have planned the exit strategy with far greater care (you know, as in any). You really think Trump would have left tens of billions of dollars of tanks, aircraft, and weaponry behind... and just shrugging about it when the Taliban started rolling around in them? To name just one thing?

Again, the Afghani army wasn't ever being trained to be self sufficient. Ever. Part of their whole day to day operations was relying on US air support and maintenance. And when Biden pulled everybody out, he even took away the civilian contractors -- the only people with any clue how to maintain or supply any of the aircraft we left for the Taliban. Stories coming in now that the Afghani army was going on Zoom calls with the contractors to figure out basic "how tos" that they had never been taught while the Taliban closed in. And again, they never even figured out how to PAY the Afghani army/soldiers... so when we left they were basically just being asked to volunteer out of pocket. Um...

I mean, should the Afghani army basically been forced to take a bigger hands-on role with all of the craft and such being gifted to them? Sure. But Biden could have been doing that the last 9 months. Not nothing.