White House Jen Psaki has her work cut out for her. I, personally, wouldn’t want a job where I had to explain and defend the ‘broken promises’ Biden.
A reporter asked Psaki how Biden has worked to keep the promise he made to people still trapped in Afghanistan:
“From this podium [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan that the commitment to allies [in Afghanistan] is sacrosanct. The administration committed to doing everything it could to get our allies out, but tens of thousands … including SIV people who are in the pipeline are still there and struggling. What exactly is the administration doing to get them out? Because on the ground and from Congress my sources say they think you’re doing nothing,” the reporter said.
“I would say that we have successfully helped, I can get you the specific number, but I believe it’s hundreds depart from Afghanistan — partners, allies, people who have stood by our side since we withdrew from Afghanistan,” Psaki responded. “We’ve worked in partnership with allies and partners in the region, including the Qataris where we have our diplomatic presence.”
Psaki tried to pump up Biden’s ‘do nothing’ approach by dragging other countries into the conversation, “We are the largest contributor of humanitarian assistance of any country in the world, which we continue to provide through proven third-party aid organizations,” she claimed.
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President Biden has defended his order to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, telling “CBS News Sunday Morning” this past weekend: “We were spending $300 million a week in Afghanistan, over 20 years. Now, everybody says, ‘You could have gotten out without anybody being hurt.’ No one’s come up with a way to ever indicate to me how that happens.”
The Biden administration received bipartisan backlash for its execution of the withdrawal, which included an ISIS terror attack that killed 13 US service members and nearly 200 Afghans at Kabul’s international airport. When the last American military flight left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of US Central Command, admitted: “We did not get out everybody we had wanted to get out”.