How Biden screwed up Afghanistan
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hen President Joe Biden took office, the United States had an agreement with the Taliban to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 1. It was contingent on the Taliban negotiating with the government in Kabul. On April 14, however, Biden announced he was altering the deal. Troops would begin to leave the country by May 1 and would be completely gone by Sept. 11, even though the Taliban were not negotiating but instead moving toward the violent overthrow of the government.
Why Sept. 11? Did Biden’s top military advisers tell him that the best way to minimize the loss of American life and maximize the number of Afghan allies evacuated was to withdraw all troops by exactly 9/11? Nope. His military advisers told him quite the opposite.
The only reason Biden chose Sept. 11 as the date on which the last U.S. troops must leave (and turn out the lights) was so he could give a purely political victory speech saying the war was over on the 20th anniversary of its beginning. He decided the timing entirely because he wished to leverage the anniversary of the epochal terrorist attack on America to his own advantage and announce a new vision for counterterrorism operations throughout the world that we are asked to accept.
Biden’s promise of an Afghan exit conducted “responsibly, deliberately, and safely” has been completely shattered, a fact that cannot be concealed by his sickening bravado and his minions' drumbeat of disingenuous denials.
Biden knew his rationale for removing U.S. forces by Sept. 11 was collapsing or he would not have scheduled a second speech and press conference on July 8. It was then that the "leader of the free world" accelerated the rout, moving up the exit date to Aug. 31 because, he claimed, "speed is safety.”
“Thanks to the way in which we have managed our withdrawal, no one — no one, U.S. forces or any forces, have been lost,” Biden boasted. If only that were still true. Nemesis swiftly followed on the heels of his hubris, and 13 members of the American military are now dead as a consequence.
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The reason that the families of the dead troops are so angry is understandable. No one wants their family members to be killed and they especially do not want them to be killed in a war that the President has told him is over. But that was just one of Biden's may lies about his Afghan fiasco.
Biden was so eager to reverse Trump policies that he ignored the aspect of the Afghan deal Trump cut that made the deal conditional. At the same time, he lied and said he had to leave because of the deal.
See, also:
Rep. Markwayne Mullin: Biden admin lying about Afghanistan, president 'has blood on his hands'
Mullin denied reports he eventually ended up in Tajikistan, but had strong words for the U.S. ambassador in Dushanbe
And:
Jen Psaki keeps lying for Joe Biden on Afghanistan
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