Biden lies to cover the failure of his Afghan retreat

 Joel Gehrk:

President Joe Biden’s insistence that Afghanistan’s defense forces can withstand the Taliban did little to persuade allies and partners anxious about the militant group’s surge in the months since the president announced his U.S. withdrawal plan.

“Overall, [Biden's] comments were more to justify [his] own decision but not in line with [the] ground situation,” an Asia-Pacific intelligence officer who has served in Afghanistan said of Biden’s assessment delivered in remarks Thursday. “Taliban would be pleased with [Thursday’s] comments.”

Biden portrayed the exit as an orderly departure that still allows diplomats to broker a sustainable peace deal between the Taliban and the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. Yet, Taliban fighters have more than doubled the number of districts they hold in the country since May 1, according to public data compiled by the Long War Journal, a surge that foreign officials attribute in no small part to the tactical and psychological ramifications wrought by Biden’s decision to exit the country.

“We've been not happy with the decision and the way it was made,” a European official told the Washington Examiner. “We didn’t expect that it will go as fast, but it happened. … [Biden] decided to do it like a shock therapy.”

BIDEN SAYS US HAS GIVEN AFGHANS 'ALL THE TOOLS' TO FEND OFF THE TALIBAN

For the Taliban, Biden’s withdrawal decision was a big shot in the arm, following a Biden administration policy review that many observers thought would culminate in an extension of the U.S. troop presence in order to support the talks between the Taliban and the government in Kabul.
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This is another example of Biden's poorly thought out decisions that are followed by poor execution.  His judgment appears to be impared by his cognative difficulties.