White House Refuses To Say If Troops Will Remain In Afghanistan Till All Americans Are Evacuated

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During Tuesday’s press conference, both White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan refused to say if U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan until the evacuation of Americans was complete. A reporter asked Sullivan if evacuations were not complete by August 31st and “there are Americans and Afghan allies who remain there, will U.S. troops stay until everyone is out or will they leave?” “So I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals,” Sullivan responded. “What I’m going to do is stay focused on the task at hand, which is getting as many people out as rapidly

Biden Admin Admits It Does Not Know How Many Americans Are Still In Afghanistan

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On Tuesday, the Biden administration admitted it did not know how many Americans were still in Afghanistan as the Taliban has seized control of the country. In a CNN interview, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that there are “certainly thousands of Americans … we don’t have an exact count.” “Best guess … between five and ten thousand that are near Kabul,” Kirby continued. “There was a message put out by the State Department today advising those Americans about how to queue up and how to get to the airport so that now that security’s better, they don’t need to

Joe Biden: Master Of Disaster

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Joe Biden

You had to know this was coming.  In the last few days, President Joe Biden, on a foreign policy quest to show he is the master of all, so abruptly and ineptly screwed up Afghanistan policy that he has managed to unite both liberals and conservatives, each horrified. He wound up proving himself to be a master, alright. The master of disaster. After staunchly denying that what he did was in any fashion resembling the frantic American retreat from Saigon in 1975 – then quickly retreating back to vacation –  Biden’s actions produced even more indelible images of a panic-driven

Biden: I Stand Behind My Decision To Pull Out Of Afghanistan, But Blame Trump

Joe Biden

On Monday afternoon, President Biden addressed the crisis in Afghanistan that has developed as the United States has attempted to evacuate Kabul while the Taliban quickly take over the country, saying that it was his decision while also conversely saying it was former President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from the country. “When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban,” Biden said.  “Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021, just a little over three months after I took office. U.S. forces had already drawn down

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