It has been interesting watching how quickly the left has turned on Biden following his horrific failure in Afghanistan. A disoriented Biden failed to evacuate American citizens and allies prior to pulling out the US military leaving many stranded and at the mercy of the terrorist organization the Taliban.
A fact that the White House has worked tirelessly to spin in a positive light. Unfortunately for them, you can’t polish every turd. Biden really screwed up and his carelessness should be criminal. Leaving him in office would be reckless at this point. We have solid proof that he is incapable of leading.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been working overtime trying to downplay Biden’s epic failure but CBS’s Face the Nation host Major Garrett caught him off guard and got him to admit that Biden is begging the Taliban for permission to retrieve the stranded Americans.
Garrett asked if we are “negotiating with” the Taliban and questioned if that doesn’t legitimize the terrorist group.
“We’ve had, for a long time, had contact with the Taliban both at a political level in Doha, going back some years, as well as now on the ground in Kabul, a working relationship in order to deconflict, in order to work through any problems with people getting to the airport,” Blinken said. “That’s been very important to making sure that we can actually advance our own interests in getting people out safely and effectively as possible. So, that’s the nature of the relationship.”
Garrett clarified, “Oh, so, we have to ask the Taliban for permission for American citizens to leave.” True or not true?
“They are in control of Kabul,” Blinken admitted. “That is the reality. That is the reality that we have to deal with.”
Garrett asked, “How comfortable are you with that, Mr. Secretary?”
Blinken tried to deflect, “What I am focused on, what we’re all focused on, is getting people out and making sure that we’re doing everything possible to do that. And in this case, it is, I think, a requirement of the job to be in contact with the Taliban, which controls Kabul.”
Blinken continued:
And look, what we’ve seen, Major, is also pretty remarkable. Go back a week. The government fell — and, by the way, I was on the phone with President Karzai the day before, when he was telling me his intent, as he put it, to fight to the death. Well, the next day he was gone. The military collapsed.
And in the space of that week, our military went in, secured the airport, got our embassy to safety at the airport from the embassy compound, began this remarkable evacuation effort. And as I said, we had about 8,000 people out in the last 24 hours. And going back to the end of July, it is 30,000 people. And that’s extraordinary. It doesn’t just happen. A tremendous amount of planning went into that, including a lot of pre-planning. And that’s what we’re focused on now.”