Brett McGurk, Former presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat ISIS, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the last minute foreign policy moves, including the decision to draw down the number of troops in Afghanistan, that President Trump is saddling the incoming Biden administration with. Aired on 11/20/2020.
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Brett McGurk: 'There's No Reason' For Trump's Move To Pull Troops From Afghanistan | Andrea Mitchell
There is something more sinister being committed. These visible, despicably desperate acts are simply smoke screens to something else.
Scared as to what…because we don’t know what’s really happening.
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@Roni R. Um. That won’t do it. The die is cast. Biden is president Jan 20.
Traitor Trump is handing over Afghanistan over to the Taliban A deal he made with them.
There is no evidence of what you are saying . You are crazy.
Liberals love to see American soldiers dying in A’stan and Iraq..
@Sun dial no body wants any death only your dear leaders demise will make us smile
@Sun dial ◀DISPICABLE IDIOCY!
@Jerry Hate
My leader is Obama…😄
The only reason Trump did that was to make himself feel like a big-shot. And let’s face it: World leaders trying to be big-shots is the main reason the world is such a human rights mess, and why we’re constantly at war.
TRUE.
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MEANWHILE BACK IN NE SYRIA, MORE U.S. TROOPS ARE SENT TO PROTECT TRUMP’S INVESTMENT IN AN OIL FIELD EXPLOITED BY AN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.
NO REASON TO STOP KILLING EA OTHER?SOUNDS LIKE A REPTILIAN TO ME-
Trump isn’t pulling the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan for the benefit of the United States or the Soldiers themselves, like every other so called decision he takes it’s purely transactional i.e. What’s in it for him ?
The kurds will be killed and his abandonment of them will be forgotten.
Taliban, ISIS, ISWAP, Boko Haram… many names for the same islamists/ terrorist.
He’s torching everything before he’s evicted. I hope the cost is the Senate majority. McTurtle would be veeerrrry angry.
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I’ve voted for republicans before. Never again. Trump should be the last republican president.
@Robert Alan While he said nothing about Putin’s bounties on U.S. troops. Have to wonder how many were actually collected.
@Insignificant360 What did you expect Donald Trump to tell Putin America was going to war with Russia? You’re insane.
@Robert Alan So you’re perfectly fine with Trump condoning Putin’s bounties on Americans through silence. Real patriotic there.
“There’s No Reason’ For Trump’s Move To Pull Troops From Afghanistan”.
Yeah, there is –
If there is a rushed drawn down of ground forces in Afghanistan, during a pandemic, at Christmas, in winter, during a presidential transition, without adequate time for liaising with allies and without an coplete OPLAN, it will result in additional casualties and the lost of critical infrastructure on the ground.
And, that’s what Putin wants.
HE IS WORKING FOR THE RUSSIANS. Stop asking stupid questions!
The reason Trump took the troops out up out of Afghanistan is because Putin asked him to
Probably.
What about bombing IRAN? Enablers WAKE UP!!!
Yes there is, he’s punishing everyone for losing the election
Poor Donny…..”NOBODY’S LIKES ME”
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I think Trump is doing it for publicity’s sake… like he did last time. So he can say, “Look… I brought the troops back home for the holidays!” The problem is he doesn’t understand how it all works, how it destabilizes the region, how it increases the risk to the troops left there, how it allows our enemies to start focusing on that area more now that some of the pressure is off, how it puts our allies under more pressure because he didn’t discuss it with our own military let alone our allies. The list goes on…
Trump is going to burn everything down on the way out and blame Biden
Exactly my thought, Trump is just trying to create chaos for the next administration.
It’s not about simply sabotaging Biden. Trump is working to undermine all of America’s protective capabilities, internally as well as abroad. The heads of the department of defense, homeland security, and cyber security have all been fired and replaced in the last 30 days. Individually it’s not a huge deal but, collectively, it is potentially nation shattering. Something big is about to go down – absolutely massive – and nobody is talking about the firings except in terms of Apprentice jokes. Trump’s megalomania far exceeds what we have yet seen, and is likely emboldened by an even greater megalomaniacal foreign influence.
Afghanistan is not a playground, it is a crisis and war zone.
The impact will be felt by every female in Afghanistan.
Its back to the dark ages for them.
there is a reason, it’s called sabotage. he is burning everything in his path on his way out.
I want the troops to come home as much as anyone, but running away is giving power to the islamic extremists and will provide a power vacuum that some group will rise to fill. Bush signed the Iraq withdrawal deal before he left office, and then Obama had to fight ISIS. This is a stupid idea, and telling our enemies what we are going to do was his biggest campaign promise he hasn’t kept besides the bailouts he gave before the virus hit and crashed the economy…
Republican party – anti-democracy anti-truth, anti-facts, anti-realty, anti-facts, ant-reasoning, party. I thought neanderthals were extinct.