Biden on Afghanistan fact-checked

[libertybele]

Biden on Afghanistan fact-checked

President Joe Biden has made a series of assertions about US policy in Afghanistan and the reasons behind his decision to withdraw forces from the country.

BBC News has fact-checked some of his claims, comparing them with his earlier statements on Afghanistan and the situation on the ground.'
'We trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong'

This figure is contested and considered by many experts to be a substantial overestimate............

.................'Are we going to continue to lose thousands of Americans to injury and death to try to unite that country?'

The last recorded American combat deaths in Afghanistan were in February 2020.

Since 2015, there have been 94 US deaths of military personnel in Afghanistan, according to the US Department of Defense.

Overall, since US forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, a total of 1,897 US military personnel have been killed in action in Afghanistan and another 415 have died from non-hostile causes, according to the US official monitoring body, Sigar.............

...............'Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building'

In his television address on Monday evening, President Biden stressed the purpose behind the US intervention in Afghanistan had "always been preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland" and "never supposed to be creating a unified centralised democracy".

This clearly contradicts his previous positions on the US objective in Afghanistan.....................

.................'Afghanistan's political leaders gave up and fled the country'

President Ashraf Ghani left the country with his aides, ahead of the Taliban advance into Kabul, despite having vowed several times to remain.

But other political leaders have remained and made public statements about doing so...............

..............'The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight'

It's true that the collapse of Afghan forces in the final few weeks of the conflict was dramatic.

However, this has to be seen in the context of the rapid, largely uncoordinated departure of international forces from the country.............

https://www.bbc.com/news/58243158

[Cyber Liberty]

I don't think WaPo has claimed even a single Pinocchio from Biden since the fall started last Saturday.

[Hoodat]

I don't think WaPo has claimed even a single Pinocchio from Biden since the fall started last Saturday.

The Washington Post announced earlier that they would stop fact-checking Biden after his 100th day in office.

[Smokin Joe]

I hope I am wrong, but it is entirely possible that this FUBAR "withdrawal" will claim more American lives directly than those killed outright in operations there in the last seven years.

[jafo2010]

Can someone tell me why 15,000 American civilians are in Afghanistan?  Biden is responsible for EVERY AMERICAN DEATH moving forward.  He should be indicted, convicted and dispatched.  He has no business being POTUS.  And his cackling sidekick is not fit to be dogcatcher, let alone VP.

[Wingnut]

The Washington Post announced earlier that they would stop fact-checking Biden after his 100th day in office.

Staffing shortage.  They can't keep up with Biden's lies.

[PeteS in CA]

Fact-checking LIEden on Afghanistan? As Instapundit Glenn Reynolds would say, "You're going to need a bigger blog!"