: Joe Biden’s Botched Withdrawal Plunges Afghanistan Into Chaos #WorldNEWS In early July, President Joe Biden informed the American people of the coming drawdown of U. S. forces from Afghanistan after

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Joe Biden’s Botched Withdrawal Plunges Afghanistan Into Chaos #WorldNEWS
In early July, President Joe Biden informed the American people of the coming drawdown of U. S. forces from Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation. The evacuation would be “secure and orderly,” he said, with little chance of a Taliban takeover. The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely, he said.
Little more than a month later, Biden has been proven wrong on all counts.
The Taliban took over Afghanistan on Sunday, entering the capital city of Kabul with no resistance after a two-week-long blitz in which multiple provincial capitals fell into the insurgents’ hands. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on Sunday, abandoning his fortress-like palace to the black-turbaned militants who roamed freely in his offices by the day’s end. U. S. diplomats, meanwhile, rushed to destroy sensitive documents and equipment at the sprawling U. S. embassy. The building’s American flag was lowered and flown aboard a helicopter to the Kabul airport, where U. S. personnel gathered for safety.
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Jim Huylebroek—The New York Times/ReduxTaliban fighters drive into Kabul on Aug. 15.
Like a long-anticipated death, Americans knew this day would come, but the collapse was so sudden and complete that it was stunning when it finally did. It’s a reality difficult to fathom after nearly two decades of U. S. involvement in Afghanistan, more than 2,300 of its troops dead, more than 20,000 wounded, hundreds of thousands of Afghans maimed or killed and trillion spent. On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this September, a Taliban flag will fly over Afghanistan.
Bidens miscalculation could alter his presidency and weaken U. S. standing overseas. He supported the invasion two decades ago but had long since concluded it was time to leave, and he got elected to the presidency on a platform of pulling troops out. So how could the White House have been caught so flat-footed? Biden Administration officials routinely argued that Afghanistan’s 300,000-plus troops and police, which the U. S. has spent at least billion to train and equip, vastly outnumbered the estimated 75,000 Taliban fighters. They pointed to Afghanistan’s air force of attack planes and helicopters, which were also paid for by the U. S. , as well as the firepower and heavy weaponry.

In the end, though, not one piece of this multibillion-dollar arsenal, which now all belongs to the Taliban, could replace the willingness to fight or the instinct for survival, as Afghan troops saw that fellow soldiers who surrendered to the militants were allowed to live and those who fought were often brutally executed.

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