![]() But because the Biden team had closed Bagram literally overnight, the Kabul airport was the only evacuation point. The Biden Administration declined this offer.īagram Air Base was a larger airfield only 35 miles from Kabul and easily defendable. As unbelievable as it sounds, the Taliban had offered to leave the capital under U.S. On August 15, the Taliban faced little resistance as the capital of Kabul fell quickly. intention to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly went on the offensive across that nation, province by province. It ranks as likely the most disastrous military operation in modern military history.Īfter President Biden announced the U.S. Even those who supported the idea of removing all forces from Afghanistan were struck by the poor planning and horrible execution of the pull out. The Trump plan was not an unconditional withdrawal-and certainly was not the unconditional surrender carried out by the Biden Administration. Those conditions included the Taliban not trying to overthrow the government there and not attacking U.S. military out of the country was conditions-based. Even our coalition partners, who were not given advance notice of Biden’s decision, objected to the withdrawal.Īdditionally, the Trump Administration’s decision to pull the U.S. The decision to remove all the military from Afghanistan was President Biden’s and his alone. However, later testifying before Congress, his top military advisors said that was not true. Initially Biden claimed that not one military advisor recommended leaving any troops there. Further, his own military commanders and intelligence officials strongly advised that even leaving just 2,500 to 6,000 troops in Afghanistan would prevent chaos and the total collapse of the Afghanistan government, which the U.S. That is not even close to accurate.Īs the Commander-in-Chief, Biden had many choices as to what to do with Afghanistan. Biden also presented a false choice to the American people in defense of his actions, as he called the withdrawal operation an “extraordinary success.” He claimed that he had only two choices: Either to remove all troops from Afghanistan or to send in thousands more U.S. It is interesting that President Biden, who reversed virtually all of President Trump’s policies and decisions upon entering office, claimed he could not reverse Trump’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. It is again a safe haven for terrorists who want to kill Americans. service members and billions of dollars wasted, Afghanistan looks just like it did before the U.S. So, the war “ended” two decades after it began, with the Taliban in control of the country again, where it still harbors terrorist groups-only now it protects not only al-Qaeda, but Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) as well. troops from the country-falsely claiming that he was bound by his predecessor’s decision to do so. Twenty years later, President Biden decided to withdraw all U.S. Armed Forces that flooded into the isolated country were there to stop the Taliban’s control of the country, because they harbored al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden. That September 11th, al-Qaeda terrorists, based in Afghanistan, had killed thousands of Americans in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. ![]() In the fall of 2001, the United States sent military troops into Afghanistan. We pray for their fellow service members who were with them that day and for their families who will forever mourn the loss of their loved ones. ![]() We grieve their loss as we look back one year later at what led up to that fateful day. military personnel were killed by a terrorist attack at the Abbey Gate at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. ![]()
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