NOW THAT AMERICANS ARE FLEEING KABUL LIKE THEY DID SAIGON, THE BLAME GAME BEGINS

Trump blames Biden for ‘unacceptable’ Taliban wave

Algulf.net

August 12, 2021

 

 

Taliban fighters drive a vehicle captured from the Afghan National Army through the streets of Kandahar on Friday

 

 

Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday reprimanded his successor Joe Biden for failing to put conditions on the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying a violent Taliban advance in the war-torn country was “not acceptable”.

Trump said the US withdrawal, which Biden has planned for August 31 and is already nearing completion, would have been “a very different and much more successful withdrawal” had he still been president.

It was under Trump that the US signed a deal with the Taliban in Doha in 2020 that would see the US withdraw all its troops by May 2021 in exchange for several security guarantees from the militants.

When Biden came to power earlier this year, he pushed back the withdrawal deadline and put no conditions on it.

“If I were president now, the world would find out that our withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a conditional withdrawal,” Trump said in a statement.

“I have personally had conversations with top Taliban leaders, understanding that what they are doing now would not have been acceptable,” he said.

“It would have been a very different and much more successful withdrawal, and the Taliban understood that better than anyone,” he said.

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Biden blames Trump for forcing his hand on a total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan claiming his predecessor 'left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001'

 

Daily Mail 

August 14, 2021

 

Taliban fighters drive the vehicle through the streets of Laghman province Sunday - the same day Jalalabad fell 

 

 

Joe Biden on Saturday said Donald Trump 'left the Taliban in the strongest military position since 2001' and blamed his predecessor for the militants' swift takeover of Afghanistan upon the U.S. troop withdrawal. 

'When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor-which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019-that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces,' Biden wrote in a statement Saturday. 

'Shortly before he left office, he also drew US forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500,' the president continued in blaming former President Trump for the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan. 'Therefore, when I became President, I faced a choice-follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies' forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country's civil conflict.' 

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'Biden has to own this': Former commander of US forces in Afghanistan David Patraeus says withdrawal is 'catastrophic for the US', a 'serious mistake' and an 'enormous national security setback'

 

Daily Mail

August 15, 2021

 

 

General David Petraeus, the former Commander of US and International Forces in Afghanistan 

 

 

President Biden must take responsibility for his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, as Taliban warlords roll into its capital Kabul, a top US general has warned

General David Petraeus the former Commander of US and International Forces in Afghanistan, is calling the withdrawal a 'serious mistake' and says the decision could be 'catastrophic for the United States and the world'.

'This is an enormous national security setback and it is on the verge of getting much worse unless we decide to take really significant action,' Petraeus told host WABC Radio Rita Cosby.

 

Taliban fighters reached Kabul on Sunday and are awaiting the 'peaceful transfer of power' to the militant Islamic group

 

A twin-rotor US Air Force Chinook was seen taking off from the US Embassy earlier today in Kabul, as the evacuation efforts rapidly pick up pace 

 

Taliban militants were pictured inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul after the Afghan president fled the country

 

 

'The outcome, whether it is the Taliban taking over the country or it's the kind of civil war that we saw in the wake of the collapse of the post-Soviet government, there are no good outcomes here,' Petraeus said. 'In fact there is nothing more than horrible outcomes unless we are willing to acknowledge that this is not going as more optimistic projections laid out and take stock.' 

Petraeus is concerned about the 'psychological collapse' that is likely to follow when Afghan troops are 'unable to uphold the level of support they are accustomed to' when fighting the Taliban.

'We are now in a situation where the Taliban are trying to encircle Kabul – a city of 5 or 6 million – before hundreds of thousands of refugees starting flooding into it,' he argued. 'If we communicate effectively with the Taliban that they need to halt what they are doing, or we will bring the might of the U.S. military down upon them, we can stop this.'

EDITOR'S NOTE: We might as well blame President George W. Bush.  He got us into this fiasco in the first place.