Posted on 08/18/2021 2:55:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An Afghan woman who runs a non-government organization in Afghanistan had harsh words for the international community Wednesday after a botched American withdrawal and the Taliban's unimpeded rush to retake the country..
“We are seeing everything we have built so hard piece by piece being lost in Afghanistan," said the woman, whose identity is being withheld due to concerns for her safety. "Our 20 years of gains and hard work vanished overnight."
How did it happen?
"The world betrayed Afghanistan, legitimized the savages, and brought them into power," she said. "I don't understand, I am still in shock. Afghans, especially women, will face a very new world, a world of fear, destruction, misery and endless pain.”
After the U.S. telegraphed its withdrawal from the country ahead of Sept. 11, 2021, Taliban militants seized territory at an alarming rate, retaking rural areas and then provincial capitals before marching into Kabul on Sunday.
Exiled President Ashraf Ghani fled to safety in the United Arab Emirates. Government forces, equipped and trained by U.S. taxpayers' money, in many cases gave up without a fight. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon news conference Wednesday that no one saw the Taliban's offensive successes coming.
But in his first interview since the fall of Kabul Sunday, President Biden told ABC News ' George Stephanopoulos that he doesn't believe the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could have been handled without "chaos ensuing."
Kabul's international airport is currently the scene of a U.S. military-secured evacuation effort to help thousands of American citizens and Afghan partners eligible for special visas get out of the country.
Taliban fighters have surrounded the area with checkpoints but while defense officials characterized the situation as "dangerous," they said there had been "no hostile interactions" between militants...
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No, just Sleepy46.
Didn’t pass the global test?
No, your religion betrayed you.
Yeah, well, Afghanistan hasn’t exactly ever done the world a favor.
Your men are cowards, ma’am.
Joe takes full responsibility, and stands by his decision. Proudly. The evil SOB.
Yes there was a botched execution of the withdrawal by Biden. A pathetic exercise generating humiliating videos.
Afghanistan has no valid complaints with the US or the world. We wasted a lot of money, lives and resources trying to help that country. Afghanistan had 20+ years to fix the mess and their military bailed at the first chance.
Mail all complaints to the White House illicitly occupied by Botch Biden.
The Middle East will never be a peaceful happy place while Islam rules it.
No - joek, The CG Ho and the Democrat Party betrayed Afghanistan.
stolen elections betrayed the world.
FWIW, we sympathize.
He betrays us on a regular basis
Did they edit the diaper change breaks and the Puddin Pop breaks out of the interview?
joek's attention span is only so long - and his full diapers REALLY reek...
There can never be peace until there is no Islam
Mad Mo made it so
And what did you do all those 20 years?
Be equal opportunity, so are the women
Bug-Out Biden, The Puddin Pop Puppet...
Yet, globalist warmongers like Loathsome Liz Cheney continue to insist that the Middle East will be a peaceful paradise if only thousands of additional Americans are sacrificed on its altar.
She and her ilk make the claim that there are just a few bad apples that need to be removed from power, and that the deaths of more Americans coupled with a few trillion more dollars extracted from American pockets will make that happen.
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