“Trump and Pompeo are the ones to blame for Afghanistan,” Trump’s former national security adviser defends Biden over the Afghanistan troops withdrawals crisis

This has been pretty intense political week for everyone involved especially for Biden and the White House administration how they managed the whole Afghanistan situation. Or how they didn’t. In multiple occasions Trump directly and his allies blamed Biden for the recent events, but majority forgot that Trump admin and Mike Pompeo were the ones that signed the surrender agreement with the Taliban.

The Biden admin could have done the troops withdrawal in a calmer way in an effort such a scenario to be avoided, but he surely is not the only one to blame in the whole situation and even some the Trump administration officials are here to remind the quick-forgetting public of the events.

One among the latest that joined the conversation in regards to the Afghan events is Trump’s former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who appeared in a podcast with Bari Weiss on Wednesday. According to him, Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo are the ones that the public should initially blame for the Afghanistan disaster for signing what he deems an ill-fated deal with the Taliban in February 2020.

“Our secretary of state signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban,” McMaster said. “This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”

Earlier this week on Tuesday, former Trump defense secretary Mark Esper — in a CNN International interview said that Trump wanted so hard to get the US troops back home that resulted with the latest events. According to him, his desire had a great impact on the situation in the past few days.

“My concern was that President Trump, by continuing to want to withdraw American forces out of Afghanistan, undermined the agreement,” Esper said. “Which is why in the fall, when he was calling for a return of U.S Forces by Christmas, I objected and formally wrote a letter to him,” he continued.

“A memo based on recommendations from the military chain of command and my senior civilian leadership that we not go further, that we not reduce below 4,500 troops — unless and until conditions were met by the Taliban. Otherwise, we would see a number of things play out, which are unfolding right now in many ways,” Esper added.

“Biden should resign in disgrace,” Trump insisted blaming Joe Biden for the whole situation claiming he is completely responsible for the events. Tuesday night on Hannity, Trump claimed that he would have stood up more to the Taliban if he were still in office.

“We had a great deal, we worked on it very hard,” Trump said. “Mike Pompeo, a brilliant guy, and many others worked on it endlessly. Meetings with the Taliban, of course, you have to meet with the Taliban. They’re the ones that you’re negotiating with,” Trump continued.

I spoke on numerous occasions to the head of the Taliban, and we had a very strong conversation. I told him up front, I said, ‘look, before we start, let me just tell you right now that if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with before,’” he finished.

If we look beyond the fact who is the one to blame, it looks like that the whole Afghanistan situation turned out to lower United States’ credibility in the eyes of the country’s partners and allies when it comes to major global issues. Biden also felt this on his back after his rating reportedly dropped for seven points in the last few days in the heat of Afghanistan events.

While Biden and the White House administration look for their next steps to improve the approval rating, Trump is headed to Alabama where he should hold “the biggest event since leaving the office” rally where more than 50,000 MAGA-die-hard supporters are expected to attend the event.