President Joe Biden pledged a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was near impossible. The terrorist group took over the capital of Kabul on Sunday.
After serving as a senator for nearly 40 years with time as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, followed by vice president for eight, President Joe Biden ascended to the White House with half a century’s access to intelligence at the highest levels. Yet, in a 2014 memoir, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Gates stood by the comment five years later in 2019. Last weekend’s blitz on Afghanistan from the Taliban appears a continuation of Biden’s blunders, underestimating the ferocity of the terror group ready to capitalize on an American withdrawal from the war-torn nation without an exit strategy. On Sunday, the Taliban effectively capped off its insurgency with the capture of the Afghan capital of Kabul, two decades after U.S. invasion. Biden pledged the horrific scenes to emerge from the Taliban takeover would never come to fruition. “You have the Afghan troops at 300,000 as well-equipped as well as any army in the world, and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban,” Biden said on July 8, when asked whether a Taliban takeover was “inevitable.
