Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

President Biden hasn't made it official yet, but he has unofficially and repeatedly said that the U.S. will not be leaving Afghanistan on May 1, as called for by the Doha Agreement signed by President Trump.

Once again, it shows that an agreement with the United States is only good while that President is in office. Trump did the same thing, disavowing the Iran Nuclear Deal that Obama had struck. And Trump took it very close to war with Iran- as close to the brink as the Cuban Missile Crisis.    

Biden has qualified his decision not to leave Afghanistan by saying that he expects to get out sometime next year. I don't know if that's his dementia talking or not, but it isn't going to console the Taliban or restrain them.  

No American has been killed in Afghanistan since the Doha Agreement was signed, but come May 1, if we're still there, the Taliban will resume attacking Americans- and I say that with great regret. 

And I have a strong feeling that Biden and his team are delusional about it. They probably think it's just going to be a little bump in the road. They probably think the Taliban is going to bluster a little, but that things will remain the same. 

I suspect they are dead wrong about that.

And what's ominous is that if active fighting resumes between the U.S.and the Taliban, it will be extremely difficult to end it. The next time we pitch "peace talks" to them, they are not even going to be listening. 

We really should get out of there. If we want to keep supporting the Afghan government, we can. We can get money to them, and we can assist them militarily without being in the country. All I'm saying is: just get our people out of there. Once we get our people out of there, there is nothing the Taliban can do to us. 

But, it's almost certain that Biden is going to make a colossal mistake and leave the troops there. The hubris never ends.