TLDR Trump loosed the dogs of war, screwed the pooch, and now gets to eat a dogshit sandwich. He won on day one and lost everything. Iran's regime literally changed — new Supreme Leader, wartime mandate, unified population — and the US is still bombing...
The way I interpret this is single-handedly lost the war. Afghanistan was over 4 presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden). The sloppy withdrawal by Biden was die to no planning and a treaty signed by Trump to do so by 2/29/2020.
The war was won, the person you handed the reigns to just ran away so fast when the enemy came it appeared like it was you being run out of the country.
What? Pretty sure Afghanistan was lost too?? Or are we using strategic ambiguity in new ways?
The way I interpret this is single-handedly lost the war. Afghanistan was over 4 presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden). The sloppy withdrawal by Biden was die to no planning and a treaty signed by Trump to do so by 2/29/2020.
Trump is the one who unconditionally surrendered Afghanistan. It’s on him.
But still, not winning against Stone Age goat herders for 4 presidents… I don’t know man, what was the plan? Bomb the desert again?
If that’s the case, then Nixon didn’t single handily lose the Vietnam War either.
But let’s be real. The Democrat president who inherits this war in 2028 will be the one blamed for loosing it.
The war was won, the person you handed the reigns to just ran away so fast when the enemy came it appeared like it was you being run out of the country.