Trump Team Plans Court Martial Trials over Afghan Withdrawal

Sunday, November 17, 2024

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.

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A 2022 independent review by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

Trump first reached an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, roughly 13,000 troops, and release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison. The Biden administration then completed the withdrawal and badly overestimated the ability of Afghan government forces to fight the Taliban on their own.

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-16 09:57 PM | Reply

He should impeach himself for rigging it to go badly

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-11-16 10:38 PM | Reply

Oh yes be sure to make this a very public trial.

#3 | Posted by Tor at 2024-11-16 10:45 PM | Reply

people died....there should be court marshals...

not at all surprised someone like truthhurts doesn't care about the dead people.

and if it exposes this BS that trump "rigged it"....let that chip fall...

more likely "you people" don't want it to happen because it wont.

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-17 08:17 AM | Reply

If court martials are going to lead to institutional learning then sure lets do it. We ducked up and learning how and why and making sure we never make those mistakes again is vital.

If court martials are just for scapegoating and revenge then maybe let's not bother.

#5 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-11-17 08:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"not at all surprised someone like truthhurts doesn't care about the dead people."

To be fair, the dead people don't care about the rest of us.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-17 08:56 AM | Reply

---- off with this --------.
Frankly the Afhani withdrawal went amazing given the -------- that occupation was, compounded by ------- letting loose thousands of enemy soldiers.

Why didn't ------- hold court martial trials for these deaths

www.buzzfeednews.com

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-17 09:51 AM | Reply

In fact, we should just simple say "It was the greatest withdrawal in the history of warfare, it was beautiful victory, everyone is saying it was a perfect redeployment!"

that is what ------- would have said

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-17 10:01 AM | Reply

"people died....there should be court marshals ... "

You don't even know how to spell it much less what it means to court-martial our generals. We don't court-martial our generals when people die in a war.

But our enemies know exactly what it means and they are very happy to hear about it. Champagne corks are popping all over the Kremlin.

There is only one reason why there will be court-martials.

Revenge and retribution.

Enjoy being lead by a fascist dictator with the emotional mind of a 2 year old child.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-17 12:29 PM | Reply

Re 9

Ok.

Two reasons.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-17 12:30 PM | Reply

and then what?

#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-17 01:08 PM | Reply