MSNBC Morning Joe August 23, 2021 10:44:00
Worse than they needed to be. if we wanted to withdraw, we could have just withdrawn but trump and pompeo and the rest, they signed a surrender agreement as h.r. mcmaster described it, with the taliban, which involved not just the u.s. withdrawing, but also forcing our allies and the government of afghanistan to release 5,000 hardened taliban terrorists, most of whom took part in the offensive that toppled the government. simply by meeting with people and by dealing with the taliban but not involving the government of afghanistan in negotiations, the trump administration delegitimized our alli...