Biden says he bears ‘zero responsibility' for Afghanistan debacle
by Becket Adams, Commentary Writer |
| August 13, 2021 10:13 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini...anistan-debacle


The Taliban have retaken 12 provincial Afghanistan capitals following the U.S. military’s secretive overnight withdrawal from Bagram Airfield earlier this year (U.S. officials didn’t even notify the base’s new Afghan commander before silently slipping away, leaving the official to discover for himself, nearly two hours after the fact, that the Americans had Irish Goodbye’d after nearly 20 years of occupation).

Since the May 1 departure, the Taliban have captured 69 of the country's 407 districts, including ones American and Afghan officials previously considered impenetrable government strongholds against the terrorist group. In total, the Taliban hold 142 districts and are fighting for control of roughly 170 more.

Washington is now dispatching an estimated 3,000 combat troops to assist in the evacuation of American personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, a city that is expected to fall into Taliban hands relatively soon.

But don’t blame these recent developments on the current president of the United States, who ordered the abrupt withdrawal.

President Joe Biden says he bears “zero responsibility” if the Taliban end up retaking the country after 20 years of U.S. engagement and reimpose a regime of terror on the country's residents. The buck stops somewhere else. -- excerpt, rest at link above --