The way I see the events events on the ground in Afghanstan and the progression of actions by the Biden Administration is that it has been planned all along. For the last 18 months of the Trump Adminstration there was relative peace. Not a single American soldier killed. Overnight, when Biden took office, everything Trump worked towards was scaped, primarily all negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban on a power sharing agreement.
Trump applied pressure. This was the main condition for complete US military withdrawal. Biden removed all pressure. He was weak.
The Taliban smelled that weakness like sharks can smell blood. The Taliban began taking territory. Biden didn't do jack about it. The Afghan Army repeatedly surrendered and defected to the Taliban. That continues to today. Just this morning the commander of an entire division of the Afghan Army didn't just surrender, he defected with his troops and arms to the Taliban. That's after we spent $88 Billion on training and arming them.
Biden wants out of Afghanistan, but he suffers from TDS so much he won't do the things Trump was doing to get out safely. His advisors are not telling the truth. They are being political. Their politics have nothing to with America First. That is so antithetical to them, it affects every bit of advice and decision they have made.
That includes the answer to your question. Why did he wait? A microcosm is the purpose of Ft. Lee, VA - a military base. Prior to the decision to change Trump's condition-based withdrawal with targets for a May implementation to Biden's free-for-all 9/11 date, the Biden Administration was turning Ft. Lee upside down to house illegal immigrants crossing our southern border. Going back even further, when Biden was VP under Obama, Ft. Lee was turned upside down for Syrian immigrates. Is Ft. Lee an immigration center or a military base? Most recently, the last couple of months, Ft. Lee was preparing for Afghan immigrants. Illegals from the south, Syrians, and Afghans are Biden's priorities. It is all clear in his actions. This past Thursday, 1,200 Afghan immigrants were airlifted to Ft. Lee from Kabul. There were multiple flights leaving Kabul that could have been filled with Americans, but America is last with Biden.
I do not want stinkin' illegals from the south. I do not want Syrians. I do not want Afghanis. The reasons at the core are the same. They are illiterate. The do not speak our language. They do not care about being American. They will take either our tax dollars or American jobs. The Syrians and Afghanis have the added bonus of being pedophile prophet worshiping death cultists. I have zero desire for any new immigrants to America, but even more so Muslim immigrants. Real Americans have zero in common with these scum.
Biden sees them as potential Democrat voters. They will one day be granted amnesty or outright citizenship. Current American citizens be damned. American troops be put in harms way. My SIL was deployed Thursday night. This is personal to me, my daughter and grandson. Americans could have left earlier this week. Actually none of this would be required if Biden continued with Trump's foreign policy.
Biden is America last. He doesn't give two schiffs about American lives, American embassy workers, American troops, American jobs, American taxpayers, American businesses, or the American economy. Everything he does is wrong for America.
Sorry for the rant, but that is my take on Biden waiting to evac the embassy. Biden is America last.
Great post. I thought they meant FT Lee in NJ! I hope your SIL stays safe.