The White House is now fighting a Taliban onslaught with sternly-worded statements
'I don’t think the Taliban gives a darn what the international community thinks.'
By Jeff Schogol | Updated Aug 12, 2021 2:33 PM
Pentagon News
There’s no hiding the fact that a Taliban victory is now inevitable in Afghanistan.
The Taliban posted a video on Thursday that purportedly shows Afghan security forces retreating from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city and the terrorist group’s birthplace. The Taliban also claimed on Thursday to have captured Herat, the country’s third-largest city.
President Joe Biden’s decision to go forward with the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan agreed to under former President Donald Trump’s administration has proved to be an unmitigated disaster for most Afghans.
Whatever is left of the 20-year U.S. experiment to bring democracy to Afghanistan does not have long to live, yet the Biden administration apparently believes it can still influence events by issuing a series of hollow admonishments to the Taliban.
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