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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by zzbzq on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:42AM (#42064990)
Could Biden have actually changed the Afghanistan thing? That was actually Trump's decision--and my favorite one he ever made--but he put the timetable into the next presidency just in case of bad press.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Dr_Birdbrain on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:00PM (#42065292)
Honest question, couldn’t Biden have just changed it, as president?
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by ein0p on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:56AM (#42065212)
I don't believe that's true. He wanted to start orderly withdrawal sooner so that it'd be well underway before the election, but his generals postponed it (and then hightailed out of there in a highly disorderly fashion leaving the Taliban in charge and giving them billions of dollars in materiel).
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by adventured on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:54AM (#42065184)
Biden is the commander-in-chief, yes he could have changed anything about it that he wanted to. He could have gone back to the Taliban with modifications to the terms. They were not in a strong position to resist, frankly. If the US had said they needed three more months to do it effectively, the Taliban would have agreed. Also Biden was making choices along the way related to the time table (Wikipedia covers this fairly well).

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