Michael Bennet Fails to Lead Again
2 min read(Colorado Peak Politics) One thing U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett can’t be accused of as he gears up for another reelection bid after 12 years in that office, and that’s leadership.
Bennet spent most of his career blindly following inept leaders, like President Obama and the 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan that failed to achieve its mission.
Bennet also followed along and supported Obama’s failed withdrawal in 2011.
Talk a walk down memory lane to recall how that worked:
The larger force was used to implement a strategy of protecting the population from Taliban attacks and supporting efforts to reintegrate insurgents into Afghan society. The strategy came coupled with a timetable for the withdrawal of the foreign forces from Afghanistan; beginning in 2011, security responsibilities would be gradually handed over to the Afghan military and police. The new approach largely failed to achieve its aims. Insurgent attacks and civilian casualties remained stubbornly high, while many of the Afghan military and police units taking over security duties appeared to be ill-prepared to hold off the Taliban. By the time the U.S. and NATO combat mission formally ended in December 2014, the 13-year Afghanistan War had become the longest war ever fought by the United States.
But when President Trump announced in 2019 troops would be coming home, that, Bennet said, was a bad idea.
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