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None of this would have happened under Trump. He almost got peace with NK. He got rid of ISIS. He laid out a plan for conditional withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was ignored by Biden Admin (look where we are now).

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Trump initiated the withdrawal: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-afghanistan-war-wi...

It actually started with Obama.

He would have done in a more controlled manner, and slow down if necessary - not let it get to this point where it's a total takeover by the Taliban while Biden is vacationing.

He was also the first president in 40 years to NOT start a war.

Wars in the last 40 years include:

- Lebanon, 1983 (Reagan)

- Persian Gulf, 1991 (Bush I)

- Afghanistan/Iraq, 2001/2003 (Bush II)

Then in the past 40 years, wars were not started under Clinton, Obama, and Trump.

Add Yugoslavia too in the 90s which started by Clinton, Syria intervention which started during Obama

In the US, wars are started by Congress, not the President. The conflicts I listed are the only wars authorized by Congress over the last 40 years. We can bring other conflicts into the discussion, but that’s a different standard than “war”.

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