“I don’t regret it,” he said in the speech from the White House. The fight against Al Qaeda was “a success”. Something went wrong though: accusations against Trump and Afghan leaders
“I firmly believe in my decision. After 20 years, I have learned the hard way that there has never been a good time to withdraw US forces ”. So the US president Joe Biden he spoke to the nation after the Taliban also captured the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. Then he added: “I am deeply saddened by the facts we face now, but I do not regret”.
SUCCESS AGAINST AL QAEDA
“We went to Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago with clear objectives: to take those who attacked us on September 11, 2001 and to ensure that Al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. We succeeded ”, he explained speaking of“ success ”. “Preventing a terrorist attack on American soil: I have argued for many years that our mission should be strictly focused on counterterrorism, not counterinsurgency O nation-building“. That’s why, he added, “as president, I am adamant that we focus on today’s threats, not yesterday’s”.
WHAT DID NOT WORK
What went wrong? What led to those images that the president called “heartbreaking”?
Biden pointed the finger at the pact signed in February 2020 with the Taliban by his predecessor Donald Trump but he also admitted that the advance “happened faster than we anticipated.” Then he aimed at the Afghan politicians: “The political leaders of Afghanistan surrendered and fled the country; the Afghan army collapsed; US troops cannot and must not fight in a war that the Afghan forces are unwilling to fight for themselves ”, he added underline the billions of dollars spent by the United States.
“How many other generations of America’s daughters and sons would you ask me to send to fight an Afghan civil war when the Afghan troops don’t want to fight it?” : Donal Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush).
COMMENTS
“Biden more isolationist than Trump,” he noted su Twitter Lorenzo Castellani, professor at Luiss. Put all the blame on the Afghan army. Democratic internationalism is over. American domestic policy does not allow external military action. Kabul abandoned ”. The discourse, in fact, seems to be much more aimed at the Americans than at the allies of the United States in terms of content but also tone.
“The way in which this exit from Afghanistan was carried out was a failure and President Biden has to admit it and address this disaster,” he said before the intervention. David Axelrod, former right-hand man of former President Barack Obama, on CNN.
The neocon commentator Bill Kristol he recalled su Twitter the words with which the then president Jimmy Carteron April 25, 1980, he “fully” assumed responsibility for the failure of the hostage rescue mission in Iran.
“On September 11, 2001, the Taliban controlled Afghanistan and we know what happened. When we remember the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 next month, the Taliban will control Afghanistan again “, he wrote Wolf speed camera, famous anchor of CNN.