- 20 Aug 2021 01:47
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“Our secretary of state signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban,” Mr. Trump’s second national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said of Mr. Pompeo during a podcast interview with the journalist Bari Weiss on Wednesday. “This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”
Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state at the time, meeting with the Taliban’s chief negotiator, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in November.
Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state at the time, meeting with the Taliban’s chief negotiator, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in November.
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