8-16-21 For a man whose sense of empathy was shaped by personal tragedy, Biden came off as cold and uncaring about the Taliban’s habit of bloody revenge. His promises that he would get all Americans and thousands of our allies safely out don’t appear realistic given that the Taliban control all of Kabul, including the roads leading to the airport. The icy coldness in his speech was matched only by his dishonesty in presenting the choices he faced. His claim that he either had to commit more troops endlessly or leave now is a shameful lie.
After years of missteps and overreach, the US had finally reached an acceptable outcome in Afghanistan. With just 3,500 military personnel on the ground, we had achieved something of a stalemate. Neither the Afghan army nor the Taliban could vanquish the other in their civil war.
America was achieving the initial objective set after 9/11 of denying Islamic terrorists a safe haven for attacks on our homeland. And at a remarkably low cost, with not a single US soldier killed in combat in the last 18 months. It is true the stalemate followed many years of foolish attempts at nation-building, and the deaths of some 2,400 servicemen and -women were an awful price. But by giving up on the mission Biden dishonors the sacrifices made by so many soldiers and their families. And for what? So he could keep his promise of ending the “forever war”? By that logic we should pull our 28,000 troops out of South Korea, jettison NATO and abandon all our friends everywhere.
Indeed Biden’s decision to send in an additional 6,000 troops just for the rescue mission shows the folly of his weakness. We will have more troops in harm’s way thanks to his initial decision. He has now upped the ante just to cover for his mistake.
Yes, President Donald Trump signed a bad deal with the Taliban, especially in getting the Afghan government to release 5,000 prisoners. But Biden has no hesitancy in reversing other Trump policies, and there was no reason why he had to embrace the decision to bring all the troops home when the mission had found the right balance and was succeeding.
Biden, in his most convoluted passage Monday, claimed the collapse of the Afghan army in the last two weeks proved the correctness of his decision. Bull. It proved just the opposite. The Afghan army was never going to be first-rate, but it was good enough as long as it had the support of American air power and intelligence. In the last 20 years Afghan soldiers died by the tens of thousands fighting for their country, and it is beneath a president and commander-in-chief to slander those who died fighting alongside our troops. https://nypost.com/2021/08/16/a-catastrophic-pullout-amid-an-afghanistan-stalemate-that-worked-goodwin/
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Panjshir National Resistance Front
#Taliban announced the next cabinet of #Afghanistan government, according to sharia law. from 33 high rank government seats,
* 31 seats reserved for the Pashtun ethnic which makes up 50% of the country.
= 2 seats left for the Tajik ethnic Which makes also 50% of the country.
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