Joe Biden’s short tenure in the Oval Office has been nothing short of tumultuous, just as every sane person in the political arena had predicted. Some might even go as far as to say it has been straight-up chaotic.
And they’d be right.
If this latest report on Biden is 100% accurate, it’s quite the doozy.
Check this out, via The Daily Mail:
President Joe Biden wanted the now-departed Afghan president to create the ‘perception’ that his government was capable of holding off the Taliban – an indication he knew it was only a matter of time before the US ally fell to the Islamic group even while reassuring Americans at home that it would not happen.
In the last phone call between Biden and his Afghan then-counterpart Ashraf Ghani, the American president said they needed to change perceptions of the Taliban‘s rapid advance ‘whether it is true or not,’ according to excerpts published on Tuesday.
Biden on Tuesday repeated his assertion that his team was caught flat-footed by the rapid Taliban takeover of the country.
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‘The assumption was that more than 300,000 Afghan national security forces that we had trained over the past two decades, and equipped, would be a strong adversary in their civil wars with the Taliban,’ Biden told the nation in a televised speech from the White House on Tuesday.
‘That assumption that the Afghan government would be able to hold on for a period of time beyond military drawdown turned out not to be accurate.
‘But I still instructed our national security team to prepare for every eventuality, even that one. And that’s what we did.
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