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The British Defense Secretary criticized the United States’ decision to leave Afghanistan as a mistake that gave momentum to the Taliban.
Speaking to Sky News, Ben Wallace warned the international community would likely pay the consequences and said he feared Al-Qaida could regain a base in Afghanistan.
He confirmed the UK plans to deploy 600 troops to Afghanistan to help 3,000 people, including interpreters and UK passport holders, leave, as officials said on Friday the Taliban captured the second largest city. of Afghanistan, Kandahar, as well as Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. in the south.
Wallace said the withdrawal deal negotiated in Doha, Qatar by the Trump administration was a rotten deal the UK tried to resist.
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Joe Biden is currently in Wilmington, Delaware, after leaving Washington yesterday, and he will be heading to Camp David for the weekend soon.
It is not known if the president will comment on the situation in Afghanistan as he visits Camp David.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki is not scheduled to hold a briefing today, nor is State Department spokesman Ned Price, who announced the start of evacuation efforts yesterday. assisted by the military at the American Embassy in Kabul.
Paul McLeary (@paulmcleary)
The State Department just said it would not be doing a briefing today … a day after announcing that 3,000 American troops would rush to Kabul to evacuate American citizens.
August 13, 2021
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As one provincial capital after another has fallen to the Taliban, Washington’s message to Afghans facing the assault has been that their survival is in their hands.
They have to fight for themselves, to fight for their nation, Joe Biden said. Jen Psaki, White House spokeswoman, added: They have what they need. What they need to determine is whether they have the political will to fight back.
But despite more than $ 80 billion in US security assistance since 2002 and an annual military budget far greater than that of other developing countries, Afghan military resistance to the Taliban is crumbling faster than even most pessimists. predicted it. There are discussions among US officials that Kabul falls in months, if not weeks.
Interviews with former officials who have been intimately involved in US policy in Afghanistan highlight an interconnected web of factors that caused the implosion, some long ago, others the result of decisions. taken in recent months.
While there is consensus that the failure of leadership and unity in Kabul played a significant role in the collapse of the defeats, there is also agreement that the attempt to throw all the blame on the Afghans conceals the share of responsibility of the United States and its allies for the military disaster.
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Pressure mounts for Biden as Taliban secures more territorial gains
Greetings from Washington, live blog readers.
Criticism of Joe Biden intensifies as Taliban forces continue their territorial advances in Afghanistan, now capturing the country’s second largest city, Kandahar.
As fears intensify over the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, the US military is deploying thousands of troops to the capital to help with the evacuation efforts of the US embassy.
Chief McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell)
The Biden administration has reduced US officials to pleading with Islamic extremists to spare our embassy as they prepare to invade Kabul. A massive, predictable and preventable disaster. My new statement: https://t.co/cHJ6NBNHFB
August 12, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has condemned the White House for sticking to Bidens’ plan to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month.
Afghanistan is heading for a massive, predictable and preventable disaster, McConnell said in a statement.
The latest news of a further withdrawal from our embassy and a hasty deployment of military forces appear to be preparations for the fall of Kabul. President Bidens’ decisions send us rushing into an even worse sequel to the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975.
But Biden continued to defend his policies, saying earlier this week they must fight for themselves, fight for their nation. … would continue to keep our commitment. But I don’t regret my decision.
The blog will have more to come, so stay tuned.
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