Out of respect, and it being a respected outlet, I read this. One paragraph in I knew it was an opinion piece. When I get home I’m going to print it and use it for toilet paper. The guy contradicts himself saying the agreement was a “peace deal” agreed upon February 29th, 2020, but says the two parties are currently at war when the author wrote this in July of 2021, over a year later. If the deal was bad when signed in February of 2020, the Biden administration had 7 months to change course, they did not. This entire opinion piece is a deflection. Above all, his case is that Trump cut troop levels down to 4500 from 8600 before he left office. Obviously that was irrelevant because the disaster didn’t happen until August, 7 months into Biden’s presidency.
Next.