"So I think in that sense, the seeds of what we're seeing today were before President Biden took office. The seeds were a peace deal that was [effectively] rushed, that wasn't done in collaboration properly with the international community and then a dividend taken out incredibly quickly."
"The die was cast when the deal was done by Donald Trump, if you want my observation."
"President Biden inherited a momentum, a momentum that had been given to the Taliban because they felt they had now won. He'd also inherited a momentum of troop withdrawal from the international community, the US." -- UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace on "BBC Breakfast" this morning. Trump apparatchiks in the GQP are already memory- holing the timetable and "peace deal" negotiated in 2020 by Mr. Shart of the Deal himself.
