Hours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s capital on Aug. 15, 2021, senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in a mass civilian evacuation.
Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious the administration was having plenty of meetings but was stuck in bureaucratic inertia and lacked urgency until the last minute.
While the word “immediately” peppers the document, it’s clear officials were still scrambling to finalize their plans — on the afternoon of Aug. 14.
For example, they’d just decided they needed to notify local Afghan staff “to begin to register their interest in relocation to the United States,” the document says.
And they were still determining which countries could serve as transit points for evacuees.
Is it any wonder that the Biden admin evacuated a lot of Afghans who didn’t have visas, and then retroactively falsely claimed that they had been vetted?
What Axios doesn’t mention though is that the Taliban asked for permission to enter Kabul.
The Biden administration was offered the opportunity to retain Kabul for the evacuation and turned it down. So these last minute meetings were on a timetable that they accepted. That is to say that the only rush here was self-inflicted.
This didn’t have to be a worse version of the fall of Saigon. 13 Americans didn’t have to die. Americans didn’t have to be trapped behind enemy lines.
This was a decision the Biden administration made. Why it made it is a question that hardly anyone is asking.
Jim says
Biden is simply indifferent to American lives, and he does not have the intellectual capacity to think his way out of a paper bag. The Democrats socially constructed him as an improvement on President Trump. But they had defamed and libeled Trump 5 years long, so that he became a straw man, and Biden was a straw candidate with none of the qualities attributed to him in Democrat propaganda. So now we are here where we are.
Bruce Stanton says
Most likely his instructions were “Run away! Killer rabbit. Run away!”
mortimer says
The most mendacious and incompetent president ever.
CogitoErgoSum says
Joe Biden needs to be impeached with some prison time to go along with it even if he is a mentally incompetent boob.
Keith O says
He probably wouldn’t understand the proceedings nor that he was in jail.
CogitoErgoSum says
It would be the best place for him.
CogitoErgoSum says
But even so, it probably would be necessary to place him on a constant “suicide watch.”
CogitoErgoSum says
Of course, no one could keep him from getting a really bad case of covid – with a tragic outcome.
CogitoErgoSum says
After all, even the vibrant and youthful Justin Trudeau, with who knows how many vaccine and booster shots up the wazoo, has been diagnosed as having caught covid. I wonder if he will survive the deadly disease.
James Lincoln says
CogitoErgoSum,
The defense would likely play up his dementia so that “Joe” is not held responsible.
somehistory says
It’s difficult to explain being evil on purpose. So, no one is asking, “how come you are evil on purpose?”
It went according to plan. and now, the terrorist group has been recognized as a legit government by the illegitimate government known as the “biden administration.” It takes one to fully know one.
PRCS says
Worser and worser.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, PRCS.
Walter Sieruk says
All the other Americans Joe Biden callously abandoned in Afghanistan . Once again Biden has proven himself to be a treacherous fiend.
Wellington says
Biden is a horrible human being. As with Fauci, it would have been far better for America had he never been born.
Yes, this awful.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
And to top it off, both Biden and Fauci hold positions of immense power.
James Lincoln says
CogitoErgoSum,
The defense would likely play up his dementia so that “Joe” is not held responsible.
Walter Sieruk says
By abandoning all those so many Americans in Afghanistan and therefore leaving them in the malicious vicious vengeful heinous grip of Taliban, Joe Biden had betrayed them. So treacherous villain, Biden is a real traitor in every of the word.
To make matter even worse that liar and chief , Biden , has the US State Department lie to the American public with the bogus claim that “All Americans are now out of Afghanistan.
That bogus US “President” Biden is a traitor to all the Americans he left stranded in Afghanistan Biden is also a traitor to other Americans and to America herself.
Biden is also a traitor to all the American soldiers who had literally shed their blood, died and had been maimed for life in Afghanistan
Likewise Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers who had shed their blood, were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban. For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden is a traitor to the American taxpayer who paid nearly two trillion to end jihadist terrorist training camps in Afghanistan forever in Afghanistan. For since Biden “handed’” that country to the Taliban ,they will let the jihadists of al Qaeda and ISIS set up jihad training centers in that land.
Joe Biden should be arrested for treason…Biden is not a real American President, he’s pseudo “president,” an impostor “president.”
That wicked fiend Joe Biden, no doubt, doesn’t even really care about all those American citizens who are trapped in Afghanistan because of him. All he’s really interested in is going on vacation and having his ice cream as well as coming on to youngsters for sex.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden very, obviously is ether completely incompetent and despicably treasonous. In the first or second case Biden shouldn’t have been allowed be enter the Office of the Presidency in the first place.
Furthermore, Biden is also weak and feeble-minded as observed by his inability to handle the terrible problem of the China virus, or more well known as the coronavirus in the United States Likewise his disastrous socialist economic policies which results in high gas prices and empty shelves at the grocery market with even more high prices at that place.
Also, Biden’s awful national polices, of having porous borders and international polices, and seen in the catastrophe he created in Afghanistan.
As the former US President Theodore Roosevelt that the Office of the Presidency in not only a powerful position but “a very strong man” is needed for the Oval Office. Joe Biden is not a strong man but as already stated is weak and feeble.
Roosevelt also, rightly, believed “a man holding that very important Office “should be sharply watch by the people [and] held to a strict accountability by them.”
Walter Sieruk says
This shows that Joe Biden knowingly callously and willingly abandoned all those other Americans to the Taliban, Joe Biden is .truly, a treacherous SOB.