While the Taliban are waiting outside the doors of the Afghan capital Kabul after conquering almost the entire nation with their breathtaking advances, the former US President Donald Trump attacked his successor Joe Biden and also said: “Miss me already?”
The Taliban’s swift control of Afghanistan has embarrassed President Joe Biden, who says he was only sticking to the Trump administration’s plans to end the war and withdraw US troops.
Twenty years of investments that cost $ 2 trillion and cost nearly $ 2,500 lives are on the verge of total disintegration within weeks when the Taliban captured Kandahar, Herat, and the country now dangerously close to Kabul.
Senate Top Republican Mitch McConnell said Biden allowed a “massive, predictable and avoidable disaster” while former President Donald Trump issued a statement denouncing the “tragic mess” and saying, “You miss me already?
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However, the Trump administration had that Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan signed a deal with the Taliban in February 2020.
In a scathing editorial, the Washington Post said Joe Biden had jeopardized real progress in Afghanistan since 2001, including girls’ education banned by the Taliban during their last rule.
The United States is rushing back its 3,000 soldiers – roughly the same number removed in the last pull-out this month – to evacuate embassy staff and evacuating Afghans whose work with the US armed forces puts them at risk, even if the Taliban advance quickly on Kabul.
Biden has argued that the United States’ main target is al-Qaeda after the 11th attacks. “You must fight for yourself, fight for your nation,” Biden said on Tuesday.
Critics have drawn parallels with the chaotic case of Saigon in 1975, but then-US President Gerald Ford served less than a year and is rarely cited by historians as solely to blame for the tortured US experience in Vietnam.
(With inputs from AFP)
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