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President Biden recent comments and press conference at the White House on Afghanistan reveals his thinking isn't fully clear and insightful on the topic! He overstates the consequences of the Taliban ending the truce that they made with the Trump administration and fully going back on the offensive against U.S. troops if the U.S. had decided to stay in Afghanistan. Where he acts like this development would necessitate a huge surge in the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, totally bogus spin! The truce only went into effect in early 2020 so if things went back to the way they were prior to 2020 America saw fatalities rates in the country on U.S. soldiers of 24,14,15,13, and 22 from 2019 to 2015, not alarming numbers and keep in mind President Trump had surged troops into Afghanistan after he took office, if the Biden administration had dialed back to the troop level at the end of the President Obama administration the country would see fatality rates probably in the low teens annually. In recent years, the U.S. was not fighting the Taliban it was a back stop to the Afghan Army so it is really disingenuous to say things like America is fighting this endless war and how many future generations of America should fight this Afghanistan war. These statements of President Biden that went like when will it be enough Americans who have died in Afghanistan as if this is the only military theater where America is losing its citizens in uniform in fighting this war against Islamic extremism not of our choice; in Iraq American military fatalities have been 12,17, 22, 20 and 8 from 2019 to 2015. in 2019 the U.S. lost five soldiers in Syria, in 2017 the U.S. lost four soldiers in Niger, Africa.
President Biden informed the American people that it has nothing to fear from resurgent terroristic threats emanating from Afghanistan if the security situation in Afghanistan should deteriorate after America leaves Afghanistan because the Pentagon has this counter terrorism over the horizon capability to neutralize the threat. Joe you really think this Pentagon capability can neutralize an Islamic State Iraq City of Mosul or an Islamic State Syrian Provence of Raqqa in "Afghanistan" because that is what they will have, after the Afghanistan Central government falls the Taliban will be preoccupied with fighting and dealing with Afghanistan warlords they won't be too worried if the Islamic State carves out some territory to rebuild their caliphate especially since from a principle perspective they are one in the same the Islamic State just has global ambitions. Once the Islamic State has this territory they can be back in business being the horrible menace in the world that they were back in 2019 doing things like using social media to recruit followers to come to their caliphate and radicalizing young people throughout the world.
President Biden from his comments doesn't really seem to appreciate the security/military threat the Taliban pose to the Afghanistan government. The Taliban are a brutally barbaric, very effective totalitarian form of authority force, by the use of terror and brute military force they will steadily deteriorate the Afghan military forces. The Afghanistan military to a large degree is a 300,000 troop military force on paper, not on the battlefield; the Taliban will act like the Islamic State did to the Iraq military forces back in 2018 and 2019 when Iraq military was strong only on paper not as a fighting force and the Taliban will slowly but steadily defeat the Afghanistan army and get ever stronger as they do it. President Biden acts clueless when he says the Afghan Army can stand up against the Taliban it would be laughable if it wasn't so alarming! President Biden is ever the slick politician when he says we will never forget the sacrifice of the brave men and women in uniform who served in Afghanistan over the past decades 2200 of them who gave the ultimate sacrifice and 20000 who suffered serious wounds in the war. Mr. President, the American people don't need you to remember them they need you to honor and respect them by not cavalierly withdrawing from Afghanistan so that the country fails and their sacrifice means nothing, it was all a complete waste!
President Biden informed the American people that it has nothing to fear from resurgent terroristic threats emanating from Afghanistan if the security situation in Afghanistan should deteriorate after America leaves Afghanistan because the Pentagon has this counter terrorism over the horizon capability to neutralize the threat. Joe you really think this Pentagon capability can neutralize an Islamic State Iraq City of Mosul or an Islamic State Syrian Provence of Raqqa in "Afghanistan" because that is what they will have, after the Afghanistan Central government falls the Taliban will be preoccupied with fighting and dealing with Afghanistan warlords they won't be too worried if the Islamic State carves out some territory to rebuild their caliphate especially since from a principle perspective they are one in the same the Islamic State just has global ambitions. Once the Islamic State has this territory they can be back in business being the horrible menace in the world that they were back in 2019 doing things like using social media to recruit followers to come to their caliphate and radicalizing young people throughout the world.
President Biden from his comments doesn't really seem to appreciate the security/military threat the Taliban pose to the Afghanistan government. The Taliban are a brutally barbaric, very effective totalitarian form of authority force, by the use of terror and brute military force they will steadily deteriorate the Afghan military forces. The Afghanistan military to a large degree is a 300,000 troop military force on paper, not on the battlefield; the Taliban will act like the Islamic State did to the Iraq military forces back in 2018 and 2019 when Iraq military was strong only on paper not as a fighting force and the Taliban will slowly but steadily defeat the Afghanistan army and get ever stronger as they do it. President Biden acts clueless when he says the Afghan Army can stand up against the Taliban it would be laughable if it wasn't so alarming! President Biden is ever the slick politician when he says we will never forget the sacrifice of the brave men and women in uniform who served in Afghanistan over the past decades 2200 of them who gave the ultimate sacrifice and 20000 who suffered serious wounds in the war. Mr. President, the American people don't need you to remember them they need you to honor and respect them by not cavalierly withdrawing from Afghanistan so that the country fails and their sacrifice means nothing, it was all a complete waste!