"The Taliban’s seizure of control over Afghanistan will loom large over Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit with U.S. President Joe Biden next Thursday, and its implications are dire.
"As Taliban forces seized control of one Afghan province after another, and everyone who was paying attention recognized that the capital Kabul would soon follow, Biden went on a two-week vacation.
"The footage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul stunned the American public. The scenes of dozens of Afghans hanging off a U.S. military C-17 already wheeling down the runway at the Kabul airport, hoping desperately to be let inside or of people being taken out of their homes and shot by Taliban gunmen provoked a bipartisan outcry against Biden and his withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. So Monday, Biden took a break from his vacation.
"He flew to the White House. He gave a speech. And he flew back to his vacation.
"Biden spoke with undisguised irritation. Biden blamed his predecessor Donald Trump for sigining a deal with the Taliban to remove the residual U.S. forces from the country. He blamed the Afghan military and government which collapsed after the U.S. retreat. And he blamed U.S. intelligence agencies, which he said had not anticipated the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country."...
"And he praised himself for having the gumption to remove U.S. forces from the country."...
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