Are we bringing him to the US? I think we are planning on getting as many of the people who aided the US out as possible and bringing them here as well...Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
Hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants were released from confinement at Bagram Air Base. Less than 2,500 Afghans that had worked for the US military as translators have been evacuated. A least 88,000 former Afghan interpreters and contractors and their families were awaiting an evacuation that may now never happen. Clearly, Joe Biden overestimated the fighting ability of the 300,000 strong Afghanistan National Army (ANA) and underestimated the prowess and determination of 80,000 Taliban militia. You have to remember that the Talban have been fighting against the finest military in the world for 20 years. They learned a lot in the process. Afghanistan will once again become an Islamist caliphate and a nation of battered women. It seems to me that the preparation, the intelligence, and the planning for the American exit was insufficient for the task. It's no secret that the Pentagon did not agree with Biden's August 31 withdrawal date. That said, it was Donald Trump that actually forced all of this by capitulating to the Taliban in late February 2020 during the Doha negotiations. Inexplicably, the Afghan government was not included in the US/Taliban talks. Like it or not, Joe Biden is going to own this Saigon-like flight from Kabul and its aftermath. I said as much back on July 6, 2020....
Biden's 'fall of Saigon' in Afghanistan presents worst moment yet of presidency
The Withdrawal From Afghanistan Was Destined for Disaster
How does Biden have blood on his hands? The withdrawal plan was put in place by Trump...not Biden.
Trump negotiated withdrawal...it was signed and sealed before Biden took office...there was little he could do to change that without Congressional approval.
Facts don't matter to the hyper partisan.
Nonsense. Congress had nothing to do with it. They didn't give approval in the first place.
It was an already signed agreement...international agreement...signed by Trump. Are you saying Trump screwed up? He set the plan in place and it was already being moved forward. Why should Biden step in and stop something Trump put in motion? It is a binding agreement...Congress can declare war...not Biden. It was negotiated in Feb 2020...long before Biden won the presidency and took office...a year earlier
The biggest **** up is Donald Trump showing he knows nothing about foreign policy. He was played like a fiddle as usual.
Biden, himself, said he had a choice. He made his choice and he ****ed it up.
www.washingtontimes.com
Trump signed the agreement...why is it Biden's problem to go back on the agreement? Trump has a history of this jacked up way of doing things...it isn't the first time....at least Biden is trying to the interpreters and others out and not leaving them stranded like Trump did before.Biden, himself, said he had a choice. He made his choice and he ****ed it up.
“I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor — which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019 — that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces,” Mr. Biden said. “Shortly before he left office, he also drew US forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500.”The president said, “Therefore, when I became President, I faced a choice — follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict. I was the fourth President to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan — two Republicans, two Democrats. I would not, and will not, pass this war onto a fifth.”Biden blames Trump for Taliban’s gains; Trump rips Biden’s ‘failure through weakness’
President Biden blamed former President Trump on Saturday for the Taliban’s rapid gains in Afghanistan, saying Mr. Trump left the extremist group “in the strongest position militarily since 2001” when he left office.
Furthermore, Biden DIDN'T follow Trump's plan.
Mr. Trump responded by saying Mr. Biden “ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our administration left for him.”“What a disgrace it will be when the Taliban raises their flag over America’s Embassy in Kabul,” Mr. Trump retorted.
The blood is on Biden's hands.
Because @Mycroft will never criticize his lord and savior, Donald Trump.
Again, Biden had a choice. He said he did. He made his choice and he ****ed up.
No, actually Biden didn't really have a choice....why should he re enter a war that Trump already walked away from? Trump handed the keys to the Taliban...it was up to Congress to declare war if they were opposed to Trump doing that.
So...do you think Biden was saying stupid shit? Is he clueless? Or, maybe, he was just spouting the bullshit his handlers put in front of him?
he was keeping the agreement Trump made. Again, are you saying that we should not have made an agreement with the Taliban? That is what Trump did.
There isn't any real fighting going on...the Afghani army put down there weapons and walked away, because we already had abandoned them almost a year ago..Trump was trying to get all soldiers out before he left office.
Gee I would think ya' gotta' be alive to take shelter.
No. He didn't. He changed the agreement, made his own plan...and here we are.
Bisen has 47 years of foreign **** ups.
Our military depends on shifting intel and updates. If we ran the war on this kind of intel, the Taliban would have won years ago.