There was no intelligence failure. The failure was Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo’s: They paid the Taliban for “peace” timed to the election, released 5,000 hardened fighters to battle US and Afghan forces, set up a timetable for US surrender and exit which forced Afghan forces to rob and run as quickly as they could, and initiated a massive US troop withdrawl as part of the package. Prior to this they forced Afganistan and Pakistan to release key Taliban leaders, including the new Taliban president of Afghanistan, Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was released on Trump’s orders in 2018.
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