No one does “half-ass” like Donald Trump. He once extolled his “historic” peace agreement in Afghanistan. That peace agreement didn’t age well, quite clearly, it was a half-assed agreement. But that seems to be consistent with Trump’s record on nearly everything. On Monday morning, Trump jumped all over Biden for “surrendering” to COVID. Trump half-assed, or one-quartered it with COVID.

Because Trump “half-assed” his peace agreement with Afghanistan, there quite clearly is no peace agreement. It is possible that it goes back to Trump’s unsuccessful attempt to invite the Taliban to Camp David, right around the 9-11 anniversary. But Trump’s miserable achievement didn’t prevent him and the RNC from claiming victory in Afghanistan by establishing peace throughout the country. It was such an accomplishment that the RNC had it prominently displayed as a page on its website.

Until today, Dave Weigel from the Washington Post reports:

How quickly can the politics around Afghanistan change? Here’s a section on the RNC’s website in June; click it now and you get a 404 error. (Rest of page was about Kosovo/Israel-Arab deals.) https://gop.com/president-trump-is-bringing-peace-to-the-middle-east-rsr/

This is obviously material from 2020 that stayed online for a while, not a new statement from June 2021. It just jumped out to me as an example of how politically popular withdrawal was until this weekend. RNC didn’t scramble to delete it, it was just left up before site updates.

Yes, we recall now. Trump took all that credit for withdrawing troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps Trump was right to do so. There is very little as complicated as foreign affairs in the middle east, which is what makes withdrawal so complicated. One has a hard time discerning decisions ahead of time. Clearly, the RNC wasn’t able to figure it out until this week.

This is obviously material from 2020 that stayed online for a while, not a new statement from June 2021. It just jumped out to me as an example of how politically popular withdrawal was until this weekend. RNC didn’t scramble to delete it, it was just left up before site updates.

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) August 16, 2021

Figuring out what to do about COVID wasn’t near as complicated, as Biden demonstrated almost immediately.

The opinions expressed by contributors and/or content partners are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of LeftScoop.news. Contact us for guidelines on submitting your own commentary.