Oh, good Lord. Either send warplanes to blitz the Taliban front lines and halt the US troop withdrawal, or be quiet. This is devastating and humiliating enough.
https://twitter.com/USAmbKabul/status/1425736366118289412
There should be a bit of a reckoning over the "Doha peace process" because it was fictional and the Biden people knew that at least since they were in power. It was an unconditional withdrawal mechanism Trump created; they were quite free to repudiate it and did not.
The other problem is the analytical "community", which provided cover for officials by treating the "peace process" with the Taliban as if it was a real thing, and in some cases recycling official talking points, despite the blatant facts before everyone's eyes.
Nor is the problem that the "Doha Taliban" was disconnected from the military commanders on the ground. To the contrary, the Taliban's departments intimately coordinated, as they did with Al-Qaeda, to string us along for everything they could get, including jihadi prisoners.
People cannot say they weren't warned 👇🏼
https://twitter.com/Emran_Feroz/status/1426202972137086977
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