Mr Pompeo, who met with Taliban officials in person at the signing ceremony of the agreement in Doha in September 2020 while secretary of state, told Fox News the administration never trusted the group and does not believe the negotiations legitimised them. On this question of withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump and Biden are like Tweedledee and Tweedledum.” John Bolton, another of Mr Trump’s former National Security Advisers, told CNN: “Had Trump been re-elected, he’d be doing the same thing. Mr Biden said that he saw no way to complete a withdrawal “without chaos ensuing”. The president has said that he would ultimately have withdrawn all troops from Afghanistan even if no deal had already been struck with the Taliban.
Mr Biden blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that ensued this week saying that his predecessor had emboldened the Taliban and left the group “in the strongest position militarily since 2001”. However, by pushing back the withdrawal date to 31 August, the president showed there was some room for manoeuvre under the terms of the agreement. He received a six month alcohol treatment order and. When elected president, Joe Biden said he had to follow through with the agreement or risk new conflicts with the Taliban, which might have required an additional troop surge into Afghanistan. DANIEL MCMASTER, 23, of Luther Street, Oxford, admitted harassing a woman in Oxford and damaging a book at the police station last November. Originally, the Trump administration agreed to withdraw from the country by 1 May, if the Taliban negotiated a peace agreement with the Afghan government and promised to prevent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State from using the country as a base. McMaster once skewered a US colonel in Afghanistan after he suggested that Afghans were inherently more corrupt than Americans, according to Democratic Rep. In light of the tumult on the ground in Afghanistan, new scrutiny is being applied to the terms agreed to in the deal as it laid out the US military withdrawal and the Taliban subsequently sweeping across the country and taking Kabul. The retired US Army lieutenant general is one of many former senior Trump officials who have sought to distance themselves from the Taliban peace deal that was signed in February 2020, as chaos gripped the capital Kabul over the past week.
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