I noticed this too. Consider that Trump is a master chess player. He does NOT do stuff spontaneously, but sometimes acts like he does. Who are the parties in this deal? U.S., Taliban, Afghan government, and Afghan people. The stalemate has been going on for years with the Taliban and Afghan government, to the point where U.S. citizens aren't paying much attention any more, which is bad news since it is OUR military at risk over there. And OUR tax dollars.
What Trump wants: what is best for the U.S.: troops out but only if terrorists can't build up in Afghanistan
What Taliban wants: To keep doing terrorist acts. It's what terrorists do.
What the Afghan government wants: Well, the government has been known to be corrupted, but don't we Americans know about that? Some are probably honest, some are lining their pockets, including with U.S. taxpayer dollars. What they are NOT doing is stopping the Taliban terrorists, just like we are not stopping the Antifa terrorists here.
What the Afghan people want: for the whole shit show to end.
So I suspect that Mustache wanted to continue his warmongering and paying OUR money and providing OUR military.
I think that Trump inviting and then disinviting the Taliban was a show for the Afghan people so they insist their government get their act together and kick Taliban butt. Trump publicly disinvited the Taliban to prove to the Afghan people that the Afghan government is screwing around and not dealing with terrorists. If ISIS can be defeated, the Taliban can too. But not if the Afghan government is farting around and doing nothing.
All of this is for the benefit of the U.S. people, so we stop paying and stop risking our military's lives, but are safe from terrorists building up in that country.
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I noticed this too. Consider that Trump is a master chess player. He does NOT do stuff spontaneously, but sometimes acts like he does. Who are the parties in this deal? U.S., Taliban, Afghan government, and Afghan people. The stalemate has been going on for years with the Taliban and Afghan government, to the point where U.S. citizens aren't paying much attention any more, which is bad news since it is OUR military at risk over there. And OUR tax dollars.
What Trump wants: what is best for the U.S.: troops out but only if terrorists can't build up in Afghanistan
What Taliban wants: To keep doing terrorist acts. It's what terrorists do.
What the Afghan government wants: Well, the government has been known to be corrupted, but don't we Americans know about that? Some are probably honest, some are lining their pockets, including with U.S. taxpayer dollars. What they are NOT doing is stopping the Taliban terrorists, just like we are not stopping the Antifa terrorists here.
What the Afghan people want: for the whole shit show to end.
So I suspect that Mustache wanted to continue his warmongering and paying OUR money and providing OUR military.
I think that Trump inviting and then disinviting the Taliban was a show for the Afghan people so they insist their government get their act together and kick Taliban butt. Trump publicly disinvited the Taliban to prove to the Afghan people that the Afghan government is screwing around and not dealing with terrorists. If ISIS can be defeated, the Taliban can too. But not if the Afghan government is farting around and doing nothing.
All of this is for the benefit of the U.S. people, so we stop paying and stop risking our military's lives, but are safe from terrorists building up in that country.
My theory.