President Trump and his Generals worked out the plans and schedule for the Afghanistan exit.
BUT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT TRUMP DID, BIDEN CHANGED IT!
Afghanistan an unforced error blowing up on Biden's watch
CNN's Peter Bergen says that the collapse of the Afghan army against the Taliban was an "unforced error" by the Biden administration and predicts that President Biden will have to send a military presence back into Afghanistan. Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/14/p...px-sot.cnn
Biden removed the military and then had to send 3,000 of them back!
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In his first year as US President Joe Biden is presiding over a huge crisis which encompasses security, political, and humanitarian paradigms.
His move to hastily withdraw troops, a continuation of predecessor Donald Trump's decision, has led to the Taliban swiftly defeating the elected government and taking control of the country.
Amid scenes of panic-stricken civilians scrambling to escape the country, and countries rushing to evacuate their citizens, the fear of Afghanistan turning into a terror-exporting hub is growing.
Can Biden's mistakes, with repercussions for the entire globe, be fixed?
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/world-n...59107.html
Joe Biden Keeps Getting His Afghanistan Facts Wrong
8/27/21
President Joe Biden's Afghanistan disaster is going from bad to worse.
At least 13 American troops were killed Thursday in an Islamic State Khorasan Province suicide attack at Kabul International Airport, where U.S. and allied forces have been scrambling to evacuate personnel and dependents before the August 31 withdrawal deadline.
The Afghanistan withdrawal—a bipartisan concept supported by Biden's two predecessors—will stand as a black stain on the president's legacy.
The tragic scenes of Afghans falling from U.S. aircraft, American troops coordinating with Taliban fighters, and the victims of the Kabul airport attack will go down in history; a humiliating and bloody end to an unpopular and costly war.
Biden's repeated gaffes on Afghanistan have not helped his situation.
The president has at times been unable to stick to his resolute messaging, undermining his own policies with factual errors and inaccurate predictions.
It is unclear whether these mistakes are due to faulty or conflicting intelligence reports, routine errors on the finer detail of the war and withdrawal, his own personal proclivity for gaffes, or the prioritization of politics over facts.
One of Biden's most embarrassing missteps was his speech in July when he assured Americans that the Taliban would not quickly rout the Afghan government and force a humiliating withdrawal, akin to America's defeat in the Vietnam War.
"The Taliban is not the South—the North Vietnamese army," Biden said in the July 8 press conference. "They're not—they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability.
There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."
OOPS - BIDEN LIED AGAIN!
Helicopters rescue Americans from US Embassy in Kabul despite Biden promising it would not happen: 'This is Joe Biden's Saigon'
President Joe Biden's failure in Afghanistan was put on prominent display Sunday when American Chinook helicopters were seen flying over the Afghanistan capital city of Kabul, transporting Americans from the U.S. Embassy to the city's airport.
Ultimately, the Taliban took Afghanistan in two weeks—faster than the 1975 Spring Offensive in which North Vietnam overran the South.
The Afghan collapse had many echoes of the fall of Saigon, including U.S. helicopters evacuating staff from the U.S. embassy, and civilians desperately trying to cram onto evacuating American aircraft.
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
Biden also appears to have misunderstood or misrepresented the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
On August 20, Biden wrongly claimed that the Al-Qaeda militant organization was no longer in the country: "What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with Al-Qaeda gone?"
Al-Qaeda is still present in Afghanistan, and the United Nations said in June that the group maintains a strong relationship with the Taliban.
Trying to dodge U.S. responsibility for the collapse, Biden said this month that Americans "trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong."
But this figure appears to also include the 118,628-strong police force, who did not take part in military operations.
Combined with the 182,071 members of the Afghan Armed Forces, the total official number of security forces was around 300,000. But even this could be an exaggeration of the true situation.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has noted that this number includes "ghost" personnel, non-existent, disbanded, or deceased units, often used as a way for local commanders to embezzle money from Kabul.
The BBC reported that the true size of the Afghan Armed Forces may have been as small as 50,000.
Biden was also criticized for accusing the Afghan forces of failing to fight.
"American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves," the president said.
Between 66,000 and 69,000 Afghan troops have been killed fighting the Taliban, according to Brown University's Costs of War Project, dwarfing the 2,442 American soldiers killed since 2001. Another 47,275 civilians have also died.
Norbert Rottgen, the chairman of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling party, said per Politico: "I say this with a heavy heart and with horror over what is happening, but the early withdrawal was a serious and far-reaching miscalculation by the current administration...This does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West."
On August 15, Rottgen wrote on Twitter: "Today is an immeasurable catastrophe. It is the result of the fatally wrong decision by the U.S. to rush to leave Afghanistan & our inactivity following this decision. A failure of the West with dramatic consequences for [Afghanistan] & our credibility."
Tom Tugendhat, the Conservative chair of the U.K. parliament's foreign affairs committee, said on Twitter the withdrawal "is the biggest foreign policy disaster since Suez. We need to think again about how we handle friends, who matters and how we defend our interests. In Kabul we've failed our friends and ourselves. We need to think again, fast."
Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said the situation was "catastrophe for the Afghan people, for the Western values and credibility and for the developing of international relations."
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-keeps-gett...ng-1623613
https://www.theblaze.com/news/us-embassy-kabu...-of-saigon
BUT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT TRUMP DID, BIDEN CHANGED IT!
Afghanistan an unforced error blowing up on Biden's watch
CNN's Peter Bergen says that the collapse of the Afghan army against the Taliban was an "unforced error" by the Biden administration and predicts that President Biden will have to send a military presence back into Afghanistan. Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/14/p...px-sot.cnn
Biden removed the military and then had to send 3,000 of them back!
[
In his first year as US President Joe Biden is presiding over a huge crisis which encompasses security, political, and humanitarian paradigms.
His move to hastily withdraw troops, a continuation of predecessor Donald Trump's decision, has led to the Taliban swiftly defeating the elected government and taking control of the country.
Amid scenes of panic-stricken civilians scrambling to escape the country, and countries rushing to evacuate their citizens, the fear of Afghanistan turning into a terror-exporting hub is growing.
Can Biden's mistakes, with repercussions for the entire globe, be fixed?
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/world-n...59107.html
Joe Biden Keeps Getting His Afghanistan Facts Wrong
8/27/21
President Joe Biden's Afghanistan disaster is going from bad to worse.
At least 13 American troops were killed Thursday in an Islamic State Khorasan Province suicide attack at Kabul International Airport, where U.S. and allied forces have been scrambling to evacuate personnel and dependents before the August 31 withdrawal deadline.
The Afghanistan withdrawal—a bipartisan concept supported by Biden's two predecessors—will stand as a black stain on the president's legacy.
The tragic scenes of Afghans falling from U.S. aircraft, American troops coordinating with Taliban fighters, and the victims of the Kabul airport attack will go down in history; a humiliating and bloody end to an unpopular and costly war.
Biden's repeated gaffes on Afghanistan have not helped his situation.
The president has at times been unable to stick to his resolute messaging, undermining his own policies with factual errors and inaccurate predictions.
It is unclear whether these mistakes are due to faulty or conflicting intelligence reports, routine errors on the finer detail of the war and withdrawal, his own personal proclivity for gaffes, or the prioritization of politics over facts.
One of Biden's most embarrassing missteps was his speech in July when he assured Americans that the Taliban would not quickly rout the Afghan government and force a humiliating withdrawal, akin to America's defeat in the Vietnam War.
"The Taliban is not the South—the North Vietnamese army," Biden said in the July 8 press conference. "They're not—they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability.
There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."
OOPS - BIDEN LIED AGAIN!
Helicopters rescue Americans from US Embassy in Kabul despite Biden promising it would not happen: 'This is Joe Biden's Saigon'
President Joe Biden's failure in Afghanistan was put on prominent display Sunday when American Chinook helicopters were seen flying over the Afghanistan capital city of Kabul, transporting Americans from the U.S. Embassy to the city's airport.
Ultimately, the Taliban took Afghanistan in two weeks—faster than the 1975 Spring Offensive in which North Vietnam overran the South.
The Afghan collapse had many echoes of the fall of Saigon, including U.S. helicopters evacuating staff from the U.S. embassy, and civilians desperately trying to cram onto evacuating American aircraft.
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
Biden also appears to have misunderstood or misrepresented the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
On August 20, Biden wrongly claimed that the Al-Qaeda militant organization was no longer in the country: "What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with Al-Qaeda gone?"
Al-Qaeda is still present in Afghanistan, and the United Nations said in June that the group maintains a strong relationship with the Taliban.
Trying to dodge U.S. responsibility for the collapse, Biden said this month that Americans "trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong."
But this figure appears to also include the 118,628-strong police force, who did not take part in military operations.
Combined with the 182,071 members of the Afghan Armed Forces, the total official number of security forces was around 300,000. But even this could be an exaggeration of the true situation.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has noted that this number includes "ghost" personnel, non-existent, disbanded, or deceased units, often used as a way for local commanders to embezzle money from Kabul.
The BBC reported that the true size of the Afghan Armed Forces may have been as small as 50,000.
Biden was also criticized for accusing the Afghan forces of failing to fight.
"American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves," the president said.
Between 66,000 and 69,000 Afghan troops have been killed fighting the Taliban, according to Brown University's Costs of War Project, dwarfing the 2,442 American soldiers killed since 2001. Another 47,275 civilians have also died.
Norbert Rottgen, the chairman of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling party, said per Politico: "I say this with a heavy heart and with horror over what is happening, but the early withdrawal was a serious and far-reaching miscalculation by the current administration...This does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West."
On August 15, Rottgen wrote on Twitter: "Today is an immeasurable catastrophe. It is the result of the fatally wrong decision by the U.S. to rush to leave Afghanistan & our inactivity following this decision. A failure of the West with dramatic consequences for [Afghanistan] & our credibility."
Tom Tugendhat, the Conservative chair of the U.K. parliament's foreign affairs committee, said on Twitter the withdrawal "is the biggest foreign policy disaster since Suez. We need to think again about how we handle friends, who matters and how we defend our interests. In Kabul we've failed our friends and ourselves. We need to think again, fast."
Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said the situation was "catastrophe for the Afghan people, for the Western values and credibility and for the developing of international relations."
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-keeps-gett...ng-1623613
https://www.theblaze.com/news/us-embassy-kabu...-of-saigon
