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Joy Reid: I guess what worries me most in this line of Republican magical thinking is that many of them are forgetting that it`s…

On the recordAugust 26, 2021
I guess what worries me most in this line of Republican magical thinking is that many of them are forgetting that it`s Donald Trump`s decision to bring all the troops out, say, for the 2,500 that put Joe Biden in the position as to whether to keep those troops there and essentially lead them to slaughter because that wasn`t enough to hold against the Taliban, withdraw them or put 10,000 more troops into the country, something the American public didn`t support.
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Joy Reid
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Reid discusses the implications of Trump's decision on troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and its impact on Biden's options.

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