From Afghanistan to North Korea, Joe Biden is running short of time to repair the damage done by his predecessor in the White House
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.Even by Donald Trump’s chaotic standards, the “” for Afghanistan signed by the US in Doha in February 2020 was a huge own goal.
The pact posited no binding ceasefire, no power-sharing requirements, and no political roadmap. In return for some mumbo-jumbo about al-Qaida, Trump pledged total, unconditional US and Nato withdrawal within 14 months.Trump hoped to benefit politically from “bringing the troops home”, even though the vast majority had already left. He was otherwise wholly indifferent to the fate of the Afghan people.
Military men in the US and UK were aghast. So, too, were diplomats, politicians, aid agencies and analysts familiar with Afghanistan. But theirDespite being hobbled by official secrecy, two damning reports this month, one by a US public watchdog, the other by the UK parliament’s foreign affairs committee , lay bare the almost unbelievable incompetence of the two governments.
Boris Johnson and the then British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, failed to effectively challenge the Doha pact, then failed adequately to prepare for the 2021 withdrawal,
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