As Taliban takes over Afghanistan, the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said that the US President Joe Biden’s statement washing his hands from the Afghanistan conflict deserves to be noted down as the “most shameful in history by a commander in Chief”.
The Editorial Board Of Accuses Joe Biden Of Inviting Taliban To Take Over Afghanistan
As the Taliban surrounded Kabul, Biden sent an affirmation of US surrender that exculpated himself of obligation, diverted fault to his archetype, and then some or less welcomed the Taliban to assume control over the country, the article leading body of WSJ said.
With that assertion of capitulation, the Afghan military’s last resistance imploded.
Taliban caught Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani escaped the nation while the US quickly attempted to clear Americans from the conflict-torn country. The jihadists the US brought down 20 years prior for protecting Osama canister Laden will presently fly their banner over the US Embassy expanding on the twentieth commemoration of 9/11, the report said.
WSJ in the report said that they have always aimed to not offer constructive advice to avoid this outcome. They had criticized Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban and further warned about the risks of withdrawing in a hurry. WSJ said that they had done the same with Joe Biden as well.
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They further added that the President’s advisers offered an alternative and so did the Afghanistan Study Group.
“Biden, as always too assured of his own foreign-policy acumen, refused to listen,” WSj said.
They also said that Afghanistan was willing to fight with the help of NATO allies, especially with air power. They said that a few thousand troops and contractors could have avoided the whole situation.
“US military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country”, said Joe Biden
Recently, Joe Biden released a statement regarding the Afghanistan-Taliban Conflict. In the statement, he said one or more years of US presence in the country wouldn’t make a difference if the Afghanistan military itself cannot control their own country.
He said that when he took over the office, he had inherited a deal that his predecessor (Donald Trump) had cut wherein he invited Taliban to discuss the matters at Camp David. This left Taliban in the “strongest military position” since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces.
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Biden then defended his decisions and said that because of this, he was left with following through the deal with a brief extension to get the US forces and allied forces to be out of the country safely or to send more troops to fight again in another country’s civil conflict.
