Yesterdays news was about the out of control Bai Dung administration... Today confirms that the Taliban is 30 miles from Kabul and it could fall by tomorrow.
This administration is a total failure, every decision made as usual by Joey Xi is on the wrong side.
Like fighting Covid-19, Bai Dung has no plan and neither was there a plan for Afghanistan.
That is why there is a total collapse now.
This is just the continuing FUBAR that is the Bai Dung Administration.
Biden faces mounting blame for Afghan debacle
13 Aug 2021
The Taliban's stunning advances in Afghanistan threaten to be a stain on President Joe Biden's record, but he has stood firm on withdrawing US troops and believes the public is with him.
Twenty years of investment that cost $2 trillion and nearly 2,500 US lives were disintegrating within days as the Islamist insurgents seized two of the largest cities with little resistance and closed in on the capital Kabul.
Republican rivals predictably attacked Biden but he also faced the most critical coverage of his presidency, with television networks juxtaposing images of Afghanistan's collapse with his remarks a little more than a month ago that "the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely."
In a scathing editorial, The Washington Post said that Biden had put at risk the real progress in Afghanistan since 2001 including education for girls, banned by the Taliban when they last ruled.
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Biden had cast Afghanistan as a costly side issue when the United States needs to focus on a larger challenge from China.
Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, wondered how Taliban gains would affect Biden's stated mission of defending democracy in the face of authoritarians.
But Katulis said it was unclear how much of a political price Biden would pay. The US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, pushed by Biden, was popular until the rise of the Islamic State extremist movement.
"This really depends on how ugly it gets," Katulis said.
"If it's a series of atrocities just involving Afghans, you can look to Syria as an example where there is just a global shrug of indifference of saying there's nothing we can do," he said.
"But if Americans are involved, then all bets are off."