And this is why our adversaries are acting up… Biden has once again made us look bad. This time he is making us look incompetent with Afghanistan. He addressed our evacuation and claimed it was the best for our country. He blamed Trump, his predecessors, and Afghani leaders after the Taliban took over the country. He claimed the buck stopped with him but then tried to blame everyone else for how things ended up and then ran away from the podium refusing to answer any questions. Weak.
Excerpts from his speech:
“Good afternoon. I want to speak today to the unfolding situation in Afghanistan: the developments that have taken place in the last week and the steps we’re taking to address the rapidly evolving events.
My national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency, including — and contingency — including the rapid collapse we’re seeing now.”
“When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban. Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021 — just a little over three months after I took office.
U.S. forces had already drawn down during the Trump administration from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in country, and the Taliban was at its strongest militarily since 2001.
The choice I had to make, as your President, was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.
There would have been no ceasefire after May 1. There was no agreement protecting our forces after May 1. There was no status quo of stability without American casualties after May 1.
There was only the cold reality of either following through on the agreement to withdraw our forces or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat in Afghanistan, lurching into the third decade of conflict.
I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”
“So what’s happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight.
If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.”
“The events we’re seeing now are sadly proof that no amount of military force would ever deliver a stable, united, and secure Afghanistan — as known in history as the “graveyard of empires.”
What is happening now could just as easily have happened 5 years ago or 15 years in the future. We have to be honest: Our mission in Afghanistan has taken many missteps — made many missteps over the past two decades.”
Watch The Speech Below.
The buck stops here means you take the hit, you don’t point fingers and blame everyone else for your failure. Afghanistan is near Russia and was not a bad spot for us to keep for strategic purposes. Trump’s plan to leave the country had conditions. Peace had to be maintained or we were going to stay. So when Biden blames Trump it was B.S.. Trump wouldn’t have left the country in that state. But instead, Biden made it look like we were running with our tail between our legs.
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