State Dept Tries to Insist It's 'Not an Evacuation' in Afghanistan as Troops Sent to Help Evacuate
By Nick Arama | Aug 12, 2021 6:15 PM ET
Unfortunately, now, with Joe Biden, we are back to what was happening under Barack Obama — bending over to our enemies and acting subservient to the world.
We saw that with him killing the Keystone XL Pipeline which would have benefited our oil production and our energy position. That killed thousands of jobs. Meanwhile, he waived sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that allowed it to be finished, empowering Russia’s energy position and foothold in Europe.
Now we see him also doing what Barack Obama did in Iraq, just now in Afghanistan — pulling out so precipitously that it creates a huge vacuum allowing the terrorist Taliban to take over the country.
As I previously reported, Biden has let the problem get out of control. He hadn’t gotten the interpreters out yet despite knowing the window was closing and the Taliban were taking over parts of the country. I’ve been calling for this since May. Biden said, in July, that it wasn’t inevitable that they would take over and he argued against his own U.S. intel assessments.
“No, it is not,” Biden stated when asked about an “inevitable” Taliban takeover. “Because you have the Afghan troops, they’re 300,000 well-equipped, as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.”
Later in the impromptu press conference, the president rejected reports claiming that U.S. intelligence assessments and top military officials in the country have determined the Taliban will take back power within a year — or sooner.
“That is not true,” Biden answered flatly to a question on the subject. “They did not reach that conclusion.”
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