Last month, while announcing U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, illegitimate president Joe Biden assured us that the Taliban wouldn’t take over the country in our absence. Today, the Taliban controls most of the country and the White House is sending back troops to help evacuate the U.S. embassy in Kabul. It’s hard to be that wrong, that quick, but Biden is a master of expeditious incompetence.
On July 8, Joe Biden fielded this scripted question form the obedient press:
“Mr. president, is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?” asked a reporter.
“No, it is not. Because you have the Afghan troops that’s 300,000 well-equipped — as well-equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.”
Hey, that’s kind of like Biden saying that the Taliban is the “JV team.” That line didn’t work out so well for Obama. I wonder if the same will be true for Biden.
Keep in mind that this was just a little over a month ago. Let’s see how things are going today and we’ll use CNN, which always tries to sugar-coat things to cast Biden in the best light possible:
The Taliban have seized Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, and a number of other provincial capitals, as the insurgent group accelerates its rapid advance towards the capital Kabul.
Afghan Member of Parliament Gul Ahmad Kamin told CNN on Friday that Kandahar had been taken. The city, which lies in the south of the country, has been besieged by the Taliban for weeks, and many observers consider its fall as the beginning of the end for the country’s US-backed government.
Later on Friday the militants took charge of a handful of other cities. According to CNN analysis they now control 17 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals, all of which have been captured in the last week.
The group has made territorial gains in the north of the country, which has traditionally been an anti-Taliban stronghold. And it now controls towns and territories within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of Kabul, including the capital of Logar province, which also fell on Friday.
In a statement Friday, the Taliban said they had taken control of the governor’s office, police headquarters, as well as other key operational centers throughout the city of Kandahar. “Hundreds of weapons, vehicles and ammunition were seized,” the Taliban statement said.
And this is from Biden-friendly Reuters:
A senior U.S. defence official said there was concern that the Taliban – ousted from power by U.S-led forces in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks on the United State – could make a move on Kabul in days.
But Washington was hoping the Afghan security forces would put up more resistance as the insurgents move closer to the capital.
In response to the Taliban advances, the Pentagon said on Thursday it would send about 3,000 extra troops within 48 hours to help evacuate U.S. Embassy staff.
It looks like those 300,000 well-trained Afghan troops and their mighty air force are no match for the pitiful 75,000 Taliban JV team.
The cool thing about Biden’s spectacular failures is you can watch them happen in real time. The second he reversed Trump’s immigration policies, the border erupted into a full-blown crisis. As soon as he started pulling troops out of Afghanistan, the country crumbled into terrorist control.
