The Biden administration has tried to pin the blame on former President Donald Trump and the foolish deal he struck with the Taliban last year for the disaster in Afghanistan. But a new Washington Post report detailing the decisions made by Biden’s team leading up to the fall of Kabul confirms that President Joe Biden is the only one responsible for the foreign policy disaster that has left 13 U.S. soldiers dead and hundreds of Americans stranded behind enemy lines.
The Biden administration was well aware that the Taliban was gaining ground throughout the region before Biden made the call to withdraw most of our military presence and air support from Afghanistan. But, for some reason, Biden’s team had convinced itself that Kabul’s fall was not imminent and that the Afghan military could hold its own — even though all of the available intelligence suggested the opposite. This was Biden’s first error, one that led to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and the American lives that have been lost as a result.
