Even while trying to protect Joe Biden cBS unintentionally shows that Biden was a disaster
As Americans reflect this week on the 25 years that have passed since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, CBS News has returned to Afghanistan, where the war those attacks triggered ended five years ago with the Taliban’s stunning return to power.
When the last U.S. and allied soldiers left after a brutal two-decade war, the Taliban’s fighters seized billions of dollars worth of American-purchased military hardware. President Trump, whose first administration negotiated the deal to end the war with the Taliban, has accused the Biden administration of “totally botching” the withdrawal.
Five years later, the hardware of America’s longest-ever war is still easy to spot on the streets of Kabul. Taliban fighters patrol in armored vehicles once supplied to Afghan forces, wearing American tactical gear and carrying American weapons.
CBS News saw one Humvee in the Afghan capital still adorned with a faded Green Bay Packers decal — a remnant from its past operators.
President Trump has been fiercely critical of the former Biden administration, accusing his predecessor of allowing the U.S. military to abandon billions of dollars in military hardware. Mr. Trump has demanded that the Taliban hand it back.
See, it’s Bad that Trump is accusing Biden of stuff like this
But the Taliban has proudly shown off its American-funded arsenal, even staging military parades through Kabul’s streets.
Pentagon figures released last year show some $7 billion in hardware and weaponry fell into the group’s hands when the Afghan National Army collapsed.
So, um, yeah, Trump is 100% correct.
But critics of the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal say it’s allowed the Taliban to transform from insurgents into a state military force armed with billions of dollars in American-funded firepower.
They have used those weapons to impose a draconian interpretation of Islamic rule on Afghanistan’s people, almost completely depriving women and girls of the right to work and study, and restricting life for everyone in the country in ways that some analysts say are even harsher than during the group’s previous reign.
How dare those critics!!!!! And then the Credentialed Media wonders why no one trusts them and considers them heavily biased.
Trump campaigned on ending the occupation in Afghanistan
In Dec of 2020 he signed the surrender treaty promising to pull ALL troops out by May. He left that for Biden an impossible task.
What have the Taliban accomplished since then? They banned opium production and it decreased 90% The heroin dealers in Afghanistan were our allies.
That ear was started by a GOP president and ended by a Democrat president.
At what point in that 20 year disaster did Teach realize it was a galactic sized mistake ????
We had little choice but to go into Afghanistan to destroy al Qaeda, but mission creep soon changed things to deposing the Taliban. Once Osama bin Laden was sent to his 72 bacha bazi boys, we should have been making preparations to leave, but we didn’t.
Afghanistan is ungovernable by anyone other than the tribes who live there, and they will always be savages. The younger President Bush thought he could create a Western democracy there, but it didn’t work, because it never stood a chance.
President Bush taught us a great lesson: just like you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, you can’t make Western civilization out of the uncivilized. People must civilize themselves, or it won’t happen.