Posted on 08/21/2021 1:58:00 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Pentagon contradicted President Joe Biden multiple times Friday, immediately after he delivered remarks on the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan this week.
Biden said at a White House press conference that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan, only to have the Pentagon dispel that notion less than an hour later.
“Look, let’s put this thing in perspective here. What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al-Qaeda gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as, as well as getting Osama bin Laden, and we did,” Biden said.
At a Pentagon press conference right afterward, Defense Department press secretary John Kirby was asked how many al-Qaeda members are still in Afghanistan.
“We know that al-Qaeda is a presence as well as ISIS in Afghanistan. And we’ve talked about that for quite some time. We do not believe it is exorbitantly high, but we don’t have an exact figure for you,” he said.
Asked about the discrepancy between Biden and his remarks, Kirby said, “What we believe is that there isn’t a presence that is significant enough to merit a threat to our homeland, as there was back on 9/11, 20 years ago.”
He also said, “nobody’s walking away from the fact” that they are still there and added, “We’re certainly going to maintain as much vigilance as we can, absent a presence on the ground.”
Asked why Biden said there was no national security interest in Afghanistan despite the U.S. military spending 20 years there, Kirby did not directly answer the question.
He said there was a “significant” national security interest in being there “20 years ago” but refrained from saying if it is still a national security interest or not. Instead, he said,...
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Traded a garter snake for a Rattlesnake.....
Afghanistan will be Home Base for the Worst of the Worst
Opium and lot of mineral deposits. The money will pour in.
Wasn’t John Kirby formerly an Admiral?
Shame on the U.S. Navy...
No one told the pentagon that contradicting anything and everything the president says was only permissible when President Trump was president. It is NOT permissible now that Joe is in office.
Clueless Joe must be very confused. When he says Americans are getting to the airport, the media is supposed to swear to it. When he lies, the media should be confirming whatever he says is true. I never thought the day would come when the lies were too big for the media to swallow.
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