If an ounce of common sense were worth a dollar, I do believe that Donald Trump would receive at most ten cents.
Trump tells the Taliban that bad things will happen if they don’t give us an air base in their country. When I read that, I almost burst out laughing, thinking that in 20 years, we could never control that country. Trump made the deal for us to pull out, and now he wants to go back in.
Because of Trump’s deal with the Taliban, we left a lot of weapons in that country, so now they are better armed than they were before. For a man who wants a Nobel Peace Prize, he certainly is going about it the wrong way.
The Taliban government on Sunday rejected U.S. President Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left the sprawling military facility in the Taliban’s hands.
Mr. Trump on Saturday renewed his call to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram, even saying “we’re talking now to Afghanistan” about the matter. He did not offer further details about the purported conversations. Asked by a reporter if he’d consider deploying U.S. troops to take the base, the president demurred.
“We won’t talk about that,” Mr. Trump said. “We want it back, and we want it back right away. If they don’t do it, you’re going to find out what I’m going to do.”
Mr. Trump followed up with a social media post saying “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!”
On Sunday, chief Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid rejected Mr. Trump’s assertions and urged the U.S. to adopt a policy of “realism and rationality.”
In August last year, the Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of their takeover at Bagram with a grand military display of abandoned U.S. hardware, catching the eye of the White House.
