Speaking from the Oval Office tonight, 78-year-old President Joe Biden continued his damage control campaign, reassuring an anxious nation that any American that wants out of Afghanistan will get out. Yet Biden couldn’t cite exactly how many Americans have been evacuated from Kabul. With 28,000 evacuated since Aug. 17, Biden couldn’t say how many Americans have gotten out, looking more like panic-stricken Afghans have been in the front of the line. With the Taliban takeover a week old, the stampede continues at the Hamid Karzai airport where hordes of Afghans and other foreigners clamor to get aboard U.S. military C-17 and C-130 cargo planes, flying refugees to Doha, Qatar and other places around the Middle East. Biden said that U.S. officials are trying coordinate with the Taliban to get as many Americans and other foreign nationals out of the country.
Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopolos Aug. 18 that there’s nothing that could have stopped the chaos with the exit strategy. Yet Biden announced April 17 that the U.S. would leave Afghanistan by Sept. 1, giving him four months to execute a methodical and orderly exist strategy. Instead of starting the airlift last April, Biden only started to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghans Aug. 17, the day after 72-year-old former Afghan President Asfraf Ghani fled the country with oodles of cash. Once Ghani fled, there was no pretense about the Taliban completing the takeover of Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan. Biden had plenty of advance warning about the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Yet the White House dithered, procrastinated, until it was clear that the U.S.-backed Afghan puppet government collapsed. Only then, did Biden start the evacuation, causing the stampede resulting in untold numbers of deaths.
Biden continues to insist that his first priority is getting Americans out of Afghanistan but has no real plan for how they’re supposed to get through Taliban checkpoints all over Kabul, preventing many people from making it to the airport. “Our first priority in Kabul is getting American citizens out of the country as quickly and as safely as possible,” Biden said. Biden has no comment why he wanted so long to start the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan. He and his Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin said they didn’t have the intel needed to predict a Taliban takeover. Yet all the press reports for the last three months have suggested the country was falling to the Taliban. Biden’s 58-year-old Secretar of State Tony Blinken was asked by Fox New Chris Wallace whether Joe knew what was going on. Blinken diverted the answer talking about U.S. allies.
Blinken’s non-answer speaks volumes and tells the story of a president with age-related cognitive decline, not capable of dealing with complex U.S. national security issues. All that was covered by the U.S. media in the 2020 campaign with the media covering for Biden, knowing he wasn’t fit for office. Wallace was among the most guilty TV journalists touting Biden’s strengths to do anything possible to get rid of Trump. Well, now Trump’s gone but the country is left with an incompetent president, incapable to managing U.S. foreign relations and national security. Biden had four months to start evacuating Americans from Kabul but procrastinated until the U.S.-puppet government collapsed. No matter what Biden’s excuses, or those made by the media, they know he didn’t do his job to evacuate Americans safely. Now Biden, Democrats and the press can only make feeble excuses.
Biden admits now that there are no guarantees for getting Americans out of Kabul safely, with the Taliban swarming the area like mad hornets. “But I will say again today what I’ve said before—any American who wants to get home will get home,” Biden said, knowing that plenty of U.S. citizens can’t get through Taliban check-points to the Hamid Karzai airport. Biden doesn’t really know how many Americans have tried-but-failed to get to the airport to board C-17 or C-130 flights out of the country. Reports of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] terrorists ready to strike Americans can’t be confirmed but pose new complications to the evacuation. “We know that terrorists may seek to exploit the situation,” Biden said. “We’re under no illusions about the threat.” Biden can’t explain why he waited to evacuate U.S. citizens until the Ghani government collapsed Aug. 16.
Saying that the U.S. military evacuated 28,000 U.S. citizens, Afghans and other foreign nationals doesn’t give an accurate total of how many Americans have got out. No one can say how many Americans are left in Kabul, some estimates ranging between 10,000 to 25,000, leaving a mammoth operation to get them to the airport for possible relocation. “Our hope is we will not have to extend, but there will be discussions, I suspect on how far along we are in the process,” Biden said, giving no details about possible discussions with the Taliban. “We’ll have that discussion,” knowing that it’s highly unlikely that he can complete the U.S. evacuation by Sept. 1. Wallace asked the key question today to Blinken. “Does the president know what’s going on?” Blinken answered the question, without answering. Scripting Biden was the same mistake made during the 2020 presidential campaign. It was all fake.
