David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

Those forces hard and well through the first Obama term. But they failed to achieve the thing most needed: the construction of a stable Afghan state, supported by security forces that could best the Taliban without massive foreign backing. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2021

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David Frum @davidfrum

When President Obama took office in 2009, he faced a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. After much deliberation, he ordered a surge of troops that ultimately deployed 65,000 Americans, as well as substantial contingents of NATO allies. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2021

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Meanwhile, US intel confirmed what had long been suspected: the man who started the war, Osama bin Laden, had been hiding for years not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan - surely with the connivance of at least some important people in the Pakistani state. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2021