General predicts disaster as result of Biden's Afghan withdrawal policy

 Daily Mail:

'We will regret the decision to withdraw': David Petraeus slams Biden's 'hasty' troop pullout from Afghanistan as ex-commander predicts 'brutal civil war' with US gone

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 ‘Sadly, we may regret that sooner than I had originally thought when I said that right after the decision was announced.’

He added: ‘Beyond that, I think we will also look back and regret the hasty way in which we seem to be doing this.’

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Petraeus disagreed with the suggestion that the US-backed Afghan forces were content to let the Americans do the heavy lifting against the Taliban during the course of the 20-year war.

‘The Afghan National Security Forces had been fighting and dying in very large numbers. And they still are,’ he said.

‘The problem now is they're not sure if someone is coming to the rescue, and that injects a very considerable amount of uncertainty into the battlefield.’

Petraeus acknowledged that the US had reason to be frustrated with the war effort since American forces were unable to target Taliban bases in neighboring Pakistan.

Still, a complete withdrawal won’t solve the problem, according to the former commander.

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President Bush correctly said that women and girls would be big victims of this retreat.  The Taliban abused women and kept them out of schools and forced little girls into marriage.  Before the Taliban Afghan women were not that different from their western counterparts.  The Taliban subjected them to ancient abuses.