Taliban

Trump brought the US troop numbers in Afghanistan down from 4,500 to 2,500. The past 18 months there have been no American soldiers killed and the Taliban was kept under control. President Biden announced that he was going to bring all troops home by September 1st and that caused the Taliban to start their expansion. In just a couple of months they have captured 11 cities and now control half of the countries 34 provincial capitals and control two-thirds of the country. The US has 200,000 troops stationed abroad most notably in Germany, South Korea and Japan. It now appears that keeping a small contingency in Afghanistan may have been wise. Trying to put back troops now would require recapturing all of the lost territory and is probably not worth the effort. Lets hope for the sake of the American people that the news is not allowed to report all of the upcoming atrocities.