In his first press conference after American troops left Afghanistan, US President Biden blames Afghan military and Donald Trump for Taliban's swift victory
In his first press conference after the US withdrawal from the war-torn country, the US president lambasted Ashraf Ghani for fleeing amid"corruption and maleficence."
Biden called the US military airlift to extract more than 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20 year war an “extraordinary success".Besides, the president criticised the ousted Afghan government's inability to fight back against swift Taliban advances, which forced the US and its NATO allies into a hasty and humiliating exit.
But some of his remarks are sure to hurt millions of Afghans who had hoped US will help their country prosper after the invasion in 2001. Many lawmakers had called on Biden to extend the August 31 deadline to allow more Americans and Afghans to escape, but Biden said it was "not an arbitrary deadline," but one "designed to save lives."
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