"It is a mess," says Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace of the situation in Afghanistan during his weekly visit on the Marc Cox Morning Show.
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"You cannot ignore the fact that this was all set in motion when President Trump negotiated, or had his team negotiate, a deal with the Taliban back in 2020 to be out by May 1st of 2021 which was only, what, 3 months after the Inauguration ," points out the long-time Washington insider. "I think that there's enough blame to go around, but there is definitely the primary responsibility of what has happened in the seven-eight months that Joe Biden has been President."
"I'm not in any way, shape or form trying to down-play the role and how badly Joe Biden has handled this, he's made a mess of it," says Wallace, but the mission in Afghanistan has evolved over time.
"Under Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, it had gone way beyond [the original mission] that and, as you say, become 'nation building,'" says Wallace.
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