BBC: Incompetent Joe Biden Presiding Over Chaos in Afghanistan Disaster
It
is
simply
dizzying
the
speed
at
which
events
are
unfolding
-
earlier
this
week
US
officials
were
cautioning
that
it
would
be
months
before
Kabul
might
fall.
It's
turned
out
to
be
days.
And now, for all the diplomatic window dressing, this is turning into a scramble by the Americans to get out.
Officials at the embassy were told to destroy sensitive documents, helicopters are ferrying staff to the airport. The Ambassador has left, the US flag lowered. And it's left the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, trying to put a brave face on events.
Arguments
can
be
made
about
the
US
policy
to
pull
out
-
there
is
a
strong
feeling
that
US
involvement
couldn't
continue
ad
infinitum.
But
the
manner
of
the
withdrawal
has
been
hapless,
with
a
mass
of
miscalculation,
warnings
ignored,
and
-
critically
-
a
wild
over-estimation
of
the
capability
of
the
American-trained
Afghan
armed
forces.
The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president, but Joe Biden owns this unfolding chaos.