H.R. McMaster rebukes Trump over Taliban talks

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H.R. McMaster rebukes Trump over Taliban talks​

Matthew Choi
Thu, September 17, 2020, 6:31 PM CDT·2 mins read
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster is criticizing President Donald Trump for his administration’s negotiations with the Taliban.

In an interview segment with CBS’ “60 Minutes” published on Thursday, McMaster said that moving to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan was an “unwise” policy. The retired Army lieutenant general was discussing his new book, “Battlegrounds,” in which he says Trump “cheapened” the lives of the Americans who died in Afghanistan by making too many concessions to the Taliban, “60 Minutes” reported.

McMaster said during his interview that Trump was “partnering with the Taliban” ahead of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. The Trump administration’s negotiations with the Taliban go “against, in many ways, the Afghan government,” McMaster said.
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Remember McMaster was the one who wanted Trump to authorize sending 50k troops to Afghanistan. But Trump ran against the “forever” wars and would not go along with that.

It’s some seriously insane hubris for the neocons to think they could succeed where the Indians, the British and the Soviets failed. The tribes were fighting long before we got there and they’ll be fighting long after we’re gone. We should have nailed Bin Laden at Tora Bora and not delegated that job to a corrupt and leak-ridden local force, and then we should have left then and there. Instead, as of this winter, we will have been there for 19 years. So Trump is correct to get the local parties involved in settling their own fates and allowing us to exit the country peacefully.

Watch out for the false flags.
 
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