Letter to the Editor: Biden dealing with decisions of his predecessor

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Jane Brady, I read your Letter to the Editor in the Delaware State News about the withdrawal from Afghanistan (“Delaware GOP head says recent events in Afghanistan did not need to happen,” Aug. 30). This whole affair would not have occurred if your party’s former president, Donald Trump, had not brokered a bad agreement with the Taliban and left the Afghan government out of the negotiations. Did you read the Doha agreement yourself? If you didn’t, then it’s time for it to happen.

Per the agreement: The U.S. will withdraw all military, civilian and private contractors, trainers, advisers and support personnel within 14 months. The U.S. will take the following measures in the first 135 days: the reduction of U.S. forces to 8,600, down to 2,500, and the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from five key military bases. Within the remaining 9.5 months, the U.S. and its allies will withdraw all remaining forces, plus release 5,000 Taliban prisoners. Also in the agreement, there was no provision for removal of American equipment.

Now, anyone with common sense knows this would not happen in that short period, plus there were thousands of civilians that needed to be evacuated. The only thing Trump was interested in was getting us out and his own reelection, and look at the result.

Joe Biden could have delayed closing Bagram or thrown out the treaty, but then the Republican Party and Trump would have been the ones crying foul. There is an old saying: “The new president must deal with the decisions of his predecessor.”

Lonnie Brewer

Dover

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