Why Donald Trump’s Position On Afghanistan Is Coming Back To Haunt Him – The List

Trump's webmasters didn't appear to be the only ones who were busy trying to clean up their sites. Insider points out that the Republican National Committee has taken down a page that considered Trump's deal with the Taliban as a foreign-policy achievement. It trumpeted what it called a "preliminary peace deal " with the Taliban that would put an end to military action there. According to the now-defunct GOP page, the U.S. would pull out its troops within 135 days of the agreement, which was signed on February 2, in exchange for a promise that Afghanistan wouldn't be used as a base for terrorism.The RNC has since told Insider that the removal was part of a "scheduled transfer" of old posts from an old site to a new one.

Even if the page had stayed up, what the GOP's site does not mention is that the Trump administration backed the Taliban's call for the release of 5,000 of its insurgents who had been imprisoned by the Afghan government. The insurgents were singled out using a list provided by the Taliban. Of the names on the list, 400 had been linked to or convicted of serious crimes. Those prisoners were eventually released, thanks to the efforts of then secretary of state Mike Pompeo (via The New York Times).

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Why Donald Trump's Position On Afghanistan Is Coming Back To Haunt Him - The List