Despite the experts, and in spite of some of the nation’s greatest military minds warning us not to do it, Joe Biden went ahead and did it anyway.
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, after nearly 20 years of establishing a functioning world for those left ravaged by the Taliban, is going to return control of that nation back to the tyrants who held it for far too long, and the results are already turning horrid.
Translators who worked for the US there are being beheaded in the street, for starters, as the Taliban continue to take more and more territory back from the people of Afghanistan.
In fact, some estimates have the entire nation under Taliban control by the end of the year.
Afghanistan’s capital city and the seat of its government, Kabul, could come under pressure from the Taliban in as little as 30 days and fall to the extremist group within 90 days, a U.S. official told CBS News’ David Martin.
The Taliban now controls 65 percent of Afghanistan, according to European officials. A number of major provincial capitals have fallen to the group over the past week.
But despite the group’s rapid gains — which have shocked the Afghan government and its allies — U.S. President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he did not regret his decision to withdraw American troops.
The President offered some bland words for the nation we’ve abandoned.
“Afghan leaders have to come together,” Mr. Biden said. “They’ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation.”
Cynics would say that the recent legal troubles of the opioid industry had made the major Afghan import a less desirable investment for the US, and thus is it was no longer advisable to be spending so much time and money to keep the poppy fields under our control.
Others may suggest that Biden is simply a dunce.
