David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

Or else honor the Trump-Pompeo deal and exit Afghanistan - risking that local Afghan power-holders would rush to reach their own accommodations with the Taliban, capsizing the Afghan state faster than the US could extricate itself. 13/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2021

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David Frum @davidfrum

He could renege on the Trump-Pompeo deal himself, igniting a new round of fighting that would demand a new surge of US forces - repeating the experience of 2009, but this time with even more dependence on an even less friendly Pakistan (linked thread) 12/x https://t.co/0zWFiOpHzf — PolitiTweet.org

More thoughts on how we reached this grim outcome in Afghanistan. For the first dozen years of the Afghanistan war… https://t.co/JRX3DEcq4U

Posted Aug. 20, 2021

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David Frum @davidfrum

Whatever you or I or the people on cable TV would have personally advised Biden, there was no escaping the threshold question: honor Trump's deal and surrender Afghanistan - or renege on Trump's deal and recommit more or fewer US forces to defend Afghanistan. 14/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2021