Now that the Taliban has seized control of the nation of Afghanistan, the blame game is beginning for the Biden Administration. However, even though Biden blames Trump for the recent success of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Donald wasn’t taking it lying down. Donald Trump issued a statement that blamed the disaster on Biden’s “weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.”
Trump’s statement came just a few hours after Biden had the gall to place the blame on Trump for the new-found rapid success of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Donald wasn’t having any of Biden’s blame game.
Just What Exactly Did Biden Say?
Biden attempted to shift the blame for the imminent fall of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban into the lap of his predecessor, Donald Trump, in his statement late Saturday.
“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 U.S. Forces,” Biden said in his statement. “Shortly before he left office, he also drew U.S. Forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500.”
“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,” Biden continued.
Donald Trump’s Response
Donald Trump issued his response several hours later, and he blasted Biden for being a “complete failure” on this issue.
In his statement, Trump said:
Joe Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy, and many other issues. Everyone knew he couldn’t handle the pressure. Even Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much. He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him — a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America. The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground.
After I took out ISIS, I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone. The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America’s power. What a disgrace it will be when the Taliban raises their flag over America’s Embassy in Kabul. This is complete failure through weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.
Anything else?
Biden’s attempt to blame Trump came despite the fact that he had promised as early as July 8 that American forces were not going to suffer any type of embarrassment in Afghanistan.
“The Taliban is not the south— the North Vietnamese army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan,” Biden promised. “It is not at all comparable.”
However, sure enough, there were viral images of American helicopters evacuating Americans from the U.S. embassy in Kabul as they were hapless and helpless as the Taliban closed in on Afghanistan’s capital city.
Kabul is going to fall to the Taliban, and it could come as soon as the start of next week. Although the terrorist group continues to claim that they are negotiating a “peaceful” transfer of power, that couldn’t be any further from the truth, especially when you consider that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country on Sunday. We need Donald Trump’s leadership right now, and not Sleepy ol’ Joe, that is for sure.
