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The Taliban�s seizure of control over Afghanistan will loom large over Prime Minister Naftali Bennett�s visit with U.S. President Joe Biden next Thursday, and its implications are dire.

As Taliban forces seized control of one Afghan province after another, and everyone who was paying attention recognized that the capital Kabul would soon follow, Biden went on a two-week vacation.

The footage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul stunned the American public. The scenes of dozens of Afghans hanging off a U.S. military C-17 already wheeling down the runway at the Kabul airport, hoping desperately to be let inside or of people being taken out of their homes and shot by Taliban gunmen provoked a bipartisan outcry against Biden and his withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. So Monday, Biden took a break from his vacation.

He flew to the White House. He gave a speech. And he flew back to his vacation.

Biden spoke with undisguised irritation. Biden blamed his predecessor Donald Trump for signing a deal with the Taliban to remove the residual U.S. forces from the country. He blamed the Afghan military and government which collapsed after the U.S. retreat. And he blamed U.S. intelligence agencies, which he said had not anticipated the Taliban�s swift takeover of the country.

And he praised himself for having the gumption to remove U.S. forces from the country.

Biden bragged, �I�ve argued for many years that our mission [in Afghanistan] should be narrowly focused on counter terrorism, not counterinsurgency or nation building. That�s why I opposed the surge when it was proposed in 2009 when I was vice-president. And that�s why as president I�m adamant, we focus on the threats we face today in 2021, not yesterday�s threats.�

Cursory fact checks expose Biden�s disingenuousness. The parties he blamed were not responsible for the catastrophic blow the events in Afghanistan dealt to U.S. credibility. And his decision to remove U.S. forces from the country did not make the U.S. safer or better placed to �focus on the threats we face today in 2021.�

Biden�s accusation that the Trump administration is responsible for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is wrong on several counts. As former president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo explained on Sunday and Monday, the agreement Trump reached with the Taliban was conditions based. Since the Taliban breached the conditions, there is little reason to believe that Trump would have implemented the troop pullout.

Moreover, Trump intended to evacuate civilians � both U.S. citizens and Afghan nationals who worked with the Americans along with their families � before pulling out U.S. military forces.

In the last two years of the Trump administration, Trump reduced the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 15,000 to 2,500, without inducing panic or emboldening the Taliban. He quietly evacuated U.S. civilians again without inducing panic or demoralization.

Biden in contrast, removed the military forces without giving the Afghan government or military a heads-up, demoralizing them. He and his advisors repeatedly said that there was no reason to fear a Taliban takeover, so at-risk civilians had little sense of the urgency of the situation or the need to leave the country as quickly as possible.

In a conversation with Israel Hayom, a former senior Trump administration official noted as well that unlike Biden, Trump was willing to listen to argument, and change his positions to align them with the situation on the ground when necessary.

�After Trump ordered the removal of all U.S. forces from Syria in 2018, several people from both inside and outside the administration warned him that a full withdrawal would be dangerous. So he changed his plans. He withdrew most of the U.S. forces but left a few hundred in key locations and gave them the wherewithal to secure U.S. goals in the country.�

By the same token, the official argued, Trump would likely have kept a residual force in Afghanistan.

Indeed, that was the only force that remained in Afghanistan. And just as a skeletal U.S. footprint in Syria suffices to secure U.S. interests in the country, so the 2,500 non-combatant U.S. forces Biden removed from the country were able to work with Afghan and NATO forces to keep Afghanistan stable and keep the Taliban at bay.

Perhaps the oddest aspect of Biden�s indictment of Trump is that he treated Trump�s deal with the Taliban as immutable. Yet, as Pompeo noted, just as Trump abandoned Obama�s nuclear deal with Iran, so Biden was free to walk away from Trump�s deal with the Taliban. Biden�s protestations regarding the deal were particularly ridiculous given that in his seven months in office, Biden has taken a cleaver to nearly all of Trump�s domestic and foreign policies. Biden didn�t remove U.S. forces from Afghanistan because he had to keep Trump�s deal. He removed them because he wanted to.

This brings us to Biden�s devastating critique of the Afghan military, which he claimed was unwilling to defend the country. Over the past 20 years, 2,448 U.S. servicemen and women were killed in Afghanistan. Over the same period, 69,000 Afghan forces died defending their country from the Taliban. His statement amounted to malicious slander.
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One of the main functions of the U.S. forces and contractors Biden removed was to serve as military air traffic controllers for Afghan forces. Their departure meant the Afghan military lost its close air support. And since the U.S. built the Afghan military as its mini-me, like the U.S. forces, Afghan forces were dependent on close air support to conduct land operations.

In other words, Biden is more responsible than anyone else for the Afghans� post-American collapse. If he expected them to fight, he shouldn�t have left them dependent on U.S. traffic controllers which he withdrew without coordination or warning of any kind.

It is entirely reasonable for Americans to demand the return of their forces from Afghanistan. But Monday, Biden presented the American people with a choice between fighting a major war against the Taliban which would see untold numbers of servicemen killed, or bring the boys home in total defeat, as he opted to do.

Biden�s presentation was a gross distortion of the facts. The U.S. suffered no losses over the past 18 months. The choice was between more of that and squandering everything U.S. forces in Afghanistan accomplished over the past twenty years.

This brings us to the intelligence community. Since April, Biden, his advisors and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley have been insisting, presumably based on intelligence reports, that there was little reason to be concerned that a U.S. pullout would precipitate a Taliban takeover of the country. As provincial capitals fell like dominoes to the Taliban, Biden and his advisors insisted it would take a long time for the Taliban to arrive in Kabul. And on Monday, after the Taliban and taken Kabul and the Afghan President and the U.S. Ambassador had fled the city, Biden claimed that the Taliban�s takeover, �did unfold more quickly than we had expected.�

But here too, Biden did not tell the truth. ABC News reported Monday that U.S. intelligence officials insist they provided Biden clear and detailed reports over the past several months which made clear that if he withdrew U.S. forces as he intended, the Afghan army and government would collapse and the Taliban would quickly retake control of the country. The regional military commanders similarly warned this would happen.

Taken as a whole then, the most notable aspect of the fiasco in Afghanistan is that to a large degree, Biden is its sole author. He was warned of the consequence. He c

You Do Not Drop The Hammer and Say move out. It was set as a gradual withdrawal, but no, this retard waits until the last date to withdraw. Blame Trump all you want fool, it's your responsibility period. The Time frame was to give commanders the opportunity to remove or destroy Military equipment. NOT TO LEAVE IT IN THE ENEMYS POSSESSION. Biden is the biggest FOOL( In use for other words), to ever grace the Presidency.

* Monday morning quarterbacking- plain and simple.

* Funny how the only network out there that allowed Folks like Rudy, Powell & others to claim Joe did not win are now saying he is not fut to lead. How precious.

* The groundwork for Americans to leave that Afghanistan was put together by Trump. In his genius mind, he felt that the Taliban could be " trusted" suddenly because they overrun Kabul, after the President & the troops decide they not going to fight. The same way he felt he could " trust Putin & lil Kim"..We all know how that turned out.

* Oh, by the way , the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff made the assessment that no intelligence foresaw Kabul falling & the Taliban taking over. Lh, l forgot, Miley is no longer trusted because he dud not sude with 45.

* Does Biden share the blame, absolutely for not looking at all the possibilities, especially trusting the Taliban, lastly..

* Conservatives expected Biden to " fulfill Trumps" promises, what's that you say?

* That had Biden continued to " Build the wall" America would have stopped the folks from South of the Border entering into the US.

* Had Biden continued to follow Trump's agenda by letting the Takiban take over Afghanistan on May 1st, all of this would never have happened.

* Can't nail Biden on the Covid vaccinations- let's nail him on Afghanistan.

Well folks there you have it. What is that saying, " You just Can't Fix Stupid"!

* True, you can't fix stupid.

* Don't forget that Trump had 5,000 Taliban prisoners released, who are now back in the fighting force.

* Mr Deal maker was the idiot here because this so called " Peace Deal " Trump put together with the Taliban was not enforceable, and now they trying to put this crap in Biden.. nice try.

* The taliban basically had to sign a pledge of not harboring terrorists. This so called deal did not require that the Taliban not attack Afghani's forces.

* It's no wonder this incompetent fool is out of office.

* Did you know that Trump wanted to invite the Taliban to " CAMP DAVID?"

* This showman, wanted a spectacle where he would parade around his achievements for the world to see.

* Yep, you can't fix stupid is right!