[Hoot Gibson]

I agree with Trump too. I will add that if Trump plan had been followed and was not working, then the current Commander-in-Chief had the responsibility of making necessary adjustments to the plan that he inherited. Blaming Trump is not a solution - it is a very feeble excuse made by a very feeble-minded old man. This country had a moral obligation to protect our Afghan allies that worked with our troops for many years. Cutting loose and running, leaving them to be slaughtered is a national disgrace. Allowing weapons and useable military equipment to fall into the hands of the Taliban is also inexcusable.

The Taliban should have been placed on notice that every infrastructure improvement and building constructed by the U.S. would be destroyed if the Taliban did not live up to the terms to which it had agreed. 

Trump blasts Biden for not 'following the plan' his administration crafted for Afghanistan

• Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden on his Afghanistan withdrawal strategy.
  
  
• "He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him," he said.
  
  
• Biden alleged that Trump "left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
  

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted President Joe Biden for not "following the plan" that the Republican administration crafted regarding a withdrawal from Afghanistan.

During his 2016 campaign and continuing at the White House, Trump said he would keep the United States "out of endless and costly foreign wars," and this weekend, the former president took time to criticize what he perceives as Biden's foreign policy "weakness."

"He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him — a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America," he said in a statement. "The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground."

He added: "After I took out ISIS, I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone. The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America's power."

Biden has long sought to end the war in Afghanistan, which has been ongoing for nearly 20 years.

On Saturday, Biden appeared to shift the blame for any sort of Afghanistan blunder to Trump, who he said left the Taliban "in the strongest position militarily since 2001."

"When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor — which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019 — that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces," the president said. "Shortly before he left office, he also drew US forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500."