Biden blames Taliban’s success & last-minute evacuation from Afghanistan on failures of Ghani’s government
We gave them every tool they could need,” Biden said. “We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide them, was the will to fight for that future.”
Without that, no amount of length of US presence wouldn’t have made any difference, he argued. “It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan’s own forces would not.”
The president showed no sympathy for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who departed the country shortly after Taliban militants entered Kabul. “Afghanistan’s political leaders gave up and fled the country,” he said, suggesting that Ghani’s abdication, coupled with the swift surrender of the US-funded Afghan National Army, “reinforces that ending US military involvement now was the right decision.”
Biden also blamed Ghani for the last-minute US evacuation, claiming that Ghani pressured the Americans into staying in place until the bitter end, to avoid triggering “a crisis of confidence” in his leadership.
“If the political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country while the chips were down, they would never have done so while US troops remained in Afghanistan bearing the brunt of the fighting for them.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/532232-biden-afghanistan-taliban-address/
Och jag som tidigare tyckt att mannen haft hjärnsläpp när han beskrivit Putin som en "blodtörstig diktator"
(något som knappast gagnar relationen mellan Washington & Moskva) men för en gångs skull är jag beredd att skriva under på det här!
Precis som många på FB tidigare påpekat: Varför kan inte alla dessa unga män i sin "prime time" slåss istället för att fly över halva jordklotet!
Skämmes ta mig fan!
We gave them every tool they could need,” Biden said. “We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide them, was the will to fight for that future.”
Without that, no amount of length of US presence wouldn’t have made any difference, he argued. “It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan’s own forces would not.”
The president showed no sympathy for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who departed the country shortly after Taliban militants entered Kabul. “Afghanistan’s political leaders gave up and fled the country,” he said, suggesting that Ghani’s abdication, coupled with the swift surrender of the US-funded Afghan National Army, “reinforces that ending US military involvement now was the right decision.”
Biden also blamed Ghani for the last-minute US evacuation, claiming that Ghani pressured the Americans into staying in place until the bitter end, to avoid triggering “a crisis of confidence” in his leadership.
“If the political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country while the chips were down, they would never have done so while US troops remained in Afghanistan bearing the brunt of the fighting for them.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/532232-biden-afghanistan-taliban-address/
Och jag som tidigare tyckt att mannen haft hjärnsläpp när han beskrivit Putin som en "blodtörstig diktator"
(något som knappast gagnar relationen mellan Washington & Moskva) men för en gångs skull är jag beredd att skriva under på det här! Precis som många på FB tidigare påpekat: Varför kan inte alla dessa unga män i sin "prime time" slåss istället för att fly över halva jordklotet! Skämmes ta mig fan!
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Senast redigerad av BigOrangeBunny 2021-08-17 kl. 00:02.
