On March 23, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bad a very unproductive visit in Kabul about the Afghan government’s post-election split. This culminated with the US pulling $1 billion in military aid from them.
The presidential election saw both Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah claiming victory, and ultimately both holding inaugurations. Pompeo demanded that they work out a deal, and warned they’ll both be held responsible if they don’t work something out.
That was apparently just the beginning of the cuts, the slashing of $1 billion, with a threat of another $1 billion cut for 2021, was followed by Pompeo threatening to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan in retaliation if the dispute continued. The State Department had not previously reported that part.
With a US peace deal meant to end with a pullout from Afghanistan, this threat might be more honest than normal, and may reflect the administration questioning if it is worth sticking around in Afghanistan to support the ruins of a government.
You can hear the People “Cheer” if only Pompeo can be trusted to keep his word and withdraw all troops.
However I did not realise that Pompeo had taken over from Trump as POTUS.
When did this happen?
Pompeo Threatens US Pullout From Afghanistan During Kabul Visit
Just get on with it. One fewer place being destabilised by Washington just has to be a good thing. Switch off the lights on the way out.
I second the motion, Andrew. So, Fat-face Pompass threatened US withdrawal from Afghanistan. No wonder, the troops cheered;D They want out of there. Just get on with it, Fat-face; that’ll leave one fewer place being destabilized by DC – just has to be a wonderful thing. Oh, and switch off the lights on the way out;D
Double dog dare ya big Mike!
LOL my thought also as the cheers go up from Amerikan troops
And the Taliban. I should imagine they watched that, began sniggering, laughing uncontrollably and then started cheering their victory over the US.
It ain’t over till the fat man sings …?
No… Stop… Don’t….
Secretary of hate & threat Mike Pompeo, is a gangster and a threat to world peace.
Translation: Pompeo has been directed by his bosses( NWO) because of the collapsing American economy and the failure of empire to remove the Taliban from control have opted to do a Vietnam type of withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“A former senior US official was quoted by NBC as saying that Pompeo told Ghani and Abdullah they would be held responsible if the president’s peace deal fails.”
And there lies the gist of Pompeo’s concern. The Don might look bad. Must be more of Pompeo’s Christian values coming out where his main concern is about the people of Afghanistan. Similar to his concern about the Iranian people and his solution to helping them by destroying them.
Pompeo is a piece of shit … He and little Jared Kushner need to get their walking papers.
Yes please do so!!!!
Promises, promises, promises.
“[T]o support the ruins of a government.”
The US commits to government ruination as a matter of course.
What makes Afghanistan different from Syria, Iraq, et al?
Graveyard of empires.
Just so long as the troops are brought home and then discharged one way or another. If they are brought home to be set loose as an occupying army against their fellow citizens, I say leave them where they are indefinitely and pay them to stay idle in their “green zones”.
This peace plan is so fouled up one would assume Jared Kusher was involved.
Don’t worry, the Xe mercenaries will stay there and guard the CIA’s opium poppy fields. THAT is never going to go away.
The only thing those two government seek to do it steal the US aid money. They otherwise just hide out under US protection. They do nothing for their country, most of which is governed by the Taliban, and the rest by the US.
Why would you want to abandon 19 years of futile low-intensity conflict?