Has it not been slightly obvious for 20 odd years......mainly since 9 11 , one should not go live in Afghanistan to live or have i lost the plot and missed some memo......
I agree with Biden, why should they risk American lives if they can't be bothered to fight themselves.
How do you know it wasn't? The US spent 20 years pumping money into the Afghan military. Top quality equipment and training. Hardly going to predict that they're gonna sh*t themselves and run when the Americans leave. If anything you'd think they'd take matters into their own hands and put up an even bigger fight.
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Smart move.Thought ahead.
If she does get back to Dublin she'll be on the Late Late Show couch with Tubridy at the first opportunity.
This should have been factored in by US intelligence. Failing to do so has left him sending in the military to try and get his own people out of there in dangerous circumstances - very close to Saigon all over again.
This is a new fun Taliban
Taliban - They haven’t gone away you know .
"(if you are not from there)" ...
and if they are not from there - because they want to help
Hundreds of military planes. All the Afghan military are leaving. I wouldn't blame them.
and how do you expect people from afghanistan to leave? when they are poor and its not very easy to access education or to get a visa.
Is he wrong? The Afghan military and government shat the bed and ran.
Nothing wrong with doubling down on the US having no future in Afghanistan but he was hugely evasive on the current shambles and even tried to blame the Afghans themselves.
So why didn't Biden listen to them? Or, was the US president and all the individuals and agencies also wrong?
Biden was always one to take questions from the press, however the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki frowned on it and advised him not to.
He has stated this himself in the past and Jen confirmed this policy in a pod cast in May.
Jump to 40 minutes +.
so perhaps civilians werent even factored into the plan then. they were on their own. gosh its so cruel.
Obama used to subject himself to fairly frequent press conferences with questions and answers in fairness, you wouldn't expect him to field questions immediately after a major speech such as this but he would at some stage. Biden is shy when it comes to dealing with the media, I think even his most ardent supporters would admit this. Trump set the bar low when it comes to press conferences considering he essentially did none.
I imagine any withdrawal plan factored in the presence and active engagement of the 300,000 Afghan national armed forces,trained and equipped to the hilt by NATO and others, including Ireland, for 15 years.
The moment they went Missing In Action, is the moment all plans went out the window.
The question is what happened those Afghan forces.
Excuse me if this is an ignorant question, but why would any young girl (or man) choose to live in Afghanistan (if you are not from there) , of all the places on this earth?
Not literally 2 years, but yes, were happy to have their press secretaries answer with alternative facts etc. and had the fewest press conferences since Reagan. Just 9 of his conferences were solo events, not including the pandemic. Most of them were joint conferences with other world leaders etc.
I don't think they do ,but there is a few large empty NATO bases that could house hundreds of thousands of Chinese ,
But can China fight wars ,the last real Chinese military action was Tiananmen Square , before that the end of the Korean war when they stepped in to maintain the north,
How would they fare against people who have been at war 4 decades
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1427361173104697355
Some presidents didn't take questions for 2 years or so...
https://www.airway1.com/afghan-a-29-super-tucano-aircraft-shot-down-by-uzbekistan/
Lads, Obama didn't take questions either when he killed Bin Laden. Reading too much into that.
Not taking questions
An exceptionally defeatist speech. No questions entertained. Weak.
Why doesn't he take questions?
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