While former President Donald Trump stated that those responsible for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan should be “fired,” his own national security advisor said that he had a hand in the policies that led to it.
“Trump established the first sound, long-term, low-cost strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia, but then abandoned that strategy and replicated the Obama policy of negotiating withdrawal timeline with a terrorist organization, setting the stage for the Biden administration’s humiliating retreat from Kabul in August 2021.” You were out of the White House at the time that this was done. You write that you “watched with incredulity and revulsion as he directed an envoy to negotiate withdrawal with the Taliban.”