Thread by @BonicMichael

The Doha Agreement was built around 3 strategic objectives. Biden, who said his pull-out was an “extraordinary success”, negated all 3 objectives.
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2/There's only one adequate response to this, one which Americans know well:

3/The 3 strategic objectives in the Doha Agreement:
I) The Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan provided for the Ghani government & the Taliban to form a coalition government that would NOT be called “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” (Taliban's "dream-come-true").

4/II) Under the coalition government of Afghanistan there would be NO SAFE HAVEN FOR TERRORISTS:
“In conjunction with the announcement of this agreement, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban will

5/"take the following steps to prevent any group or individual, including al-Qa’ida, from using the soil of Afghanistan to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.”
III) Having positive relations w/ the new post-settlement Afghan Islamic government that will

6/ensure Afghanistan never becomes a safe haven for terrorists:
“The United States and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban seek positive relations with each other and expect that the relations

7/"between the United States and the new post-settlement Afghan Islamic government as determined by the intra-Afghan dialogue and negotiations will be positive.”

What Joe Biden accomplished (an “extraordinary success”, his words):

8/I) Ghani fled, there is no coalition government & the Taliban own the country and have once again named Afghanistan the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (“which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban”), the culmination of their dream. D’oh!!

9/II) Altho the Taliban say Afghanistan won’t be a safe haven for terrorists, they own the country and time will tell if they give al Qaeda safe haven.
III) China now already has positive relations with its new client state, the Islamic Emirate of
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10/Afghanistan.
So under the Doha Agreement the Afghan coalition government would keep Bagram. There's be no US boots on the ground but there'd are US shoes on the ground, i.e. US eyes & ears. But now the Taliban owns Bagram and Chinese troops and military equipment will move in

11/after they erase "USA" and ink "PRC" in the old SOFA agreement.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1437063236365402120?s=20

What is clear is Biden threw US strategic objectives in Afghanistan out the window for the sake of the political optics of taking credit for pulling out of Afghanistan. And Dems are happy.

12/That's a double D'oh:

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