Western media blasts Joe Biden
Just a few months in office, President Joe Biden is at the receiving end.
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"The Taliban have repeatedly expressed their hope to develop good relations with China, and that they look forward to China's participation in the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.
"We welcome this. China respects the right of the Afghan people to independently determine their own destiny and is willing to continue to develop... friendly and cooperative relations with Afghanistan."
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| Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar visited China |
"Now that Pakistan’s been proven right about Afghanistan, the question naturally becomes one of whether international perceptions about it will shift in a positive direction. No influential forces consider the Taliban to be a terrorist group any longer even if it’s still formally designated as such." - Express Tribune, Islamabad
"Past presidents might have had a senior adviser resign in the wake of such a debacle, as Les Aspin, then the secretary of defense, did after the 1993 Black Hawk Down episode in Somalia. This time, Biden owns the moment. He also owns the consequences. We should begin to anticipate them now." - New York Times
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"The words that Biden uses to describe the delta variant — a 'largely preventable tragedy that will get worse before it gets better' — apply to his handling of Afghanistan. Former defense secretary Robert Gates once said that Biden 'has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades'. He has certainly been calamitously, tragically, wrong about Afghanistan." - The Washington Post
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"Biden now finds himself carrying the political can for two decades of the missteps of others — after adding his own errors. He will be accused of rushing the US exit to create a favorable political narrative as the President who got US troops home before the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001" - CNN
The saga has it all. One President 'face to face' with history, another has to leave his people and country in shambles, guns rule the roost. Comedy of errors?
And somewhere someone mocks eager to display the joy !
"There will be an Afghans inclusive Islamic Government," asserts a spokesman of Taliban insurgents.
White House faces large scale accusations that Biden administration has botched the US departure.
Is this the Saigon moment?
There ought to be a few potentially long-term consequences.
Concern is also rising for the more than 18,000 Afghans and their families who worked for the US as translators and in other capacities who are at risk of Taliban reprisals.
Afghan women await nightmare of 1990s!
“This is manifestly not Saigon,” the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken told ABC’s This Week.
“We went into Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind, and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 9/11, and that mission has been successful," he tries to make a meek explanation.
'1975' comes haunting for the world's most powerful nation, the United States.
"A few weeks ago, Joe Biden was taking credit for pulling out of Afghanistan. Today, Joe Biden is blaming Donald J. Trump for the Afghanistan disaster.That is the epitome of weak leadership," - Lance Gooden, Congressman Texas.
In Pakistan, Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari.tweets - "Truly tragic to see the long-suffering Afghan people abandoned by President Ghani & others like Amrullah Saleh - both scuttle into hiding. Doesn't really matter where they have disappeared or bolted to - what's important is Leadership abandoned their people in midst of crisis".
"Shameful!" - the Minister writes.
Friends: Talibans in China
Ghani's administration has been steadfastly criticising Pakistan for its now infamous double standards.
On December 4, 2016 at Amritsar, at the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference, Ghani had kick-started the meet with his speech rejecting Pakistan’s assistance of $500 million for developmental works.
“Sorry Mr Sartaj Aziz, this amount can be spent to contain extremism”, he told a stunned Pak delegation.
Ghani also said – “We need to identify cross border terrorism”.
Directing his anguish at Islamabad, Ghani had said in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders from 13 other countries that – “Some (countries) still provide sanctuary to terrorists".
But most embarrassed man on the plant at this moment is President Joe Biden with his own citizens and strategic experts asking - "what was the truth ? President was terribly misled by intelligence, or he deliberately misled American people".
White House is facing large scale accusations that Biden administration has botched the US departure with potentially long-term consequences.
Concern is also rising for the more than 18,000 Afghans and their families who worked for the US as translators and in other capacities who are at risk of Taliban reprisals.
Saigon Moment: 1975, Biden gets it on Nose?
"There will be an Afghans inclusive Islamic Govt"
New Delhi:
A Taliban spokesman told international media on Sunday evening that the stage is set for 'transfer of power' where all sections of Afghan citizens will participate in it.
"There will be an Afghans inclusive Islamic government," he asserted.
The concerned authorities in India familiar with developments in terror-devastated
Afghanistan were 'prepared' for all contingencies vis-a-vis evacuating Indian diplomats and others even as the Taliban’s advance into the capital Kabul on Sunday, Aug 15, afternoon took most countries by surprise.
Specific plans for all contingencies are already in place, it is understood and the government agencies were closely monitoring the rapidly evolving situation as ending all speculation, Afghan government’s chief peace negotiator, Abdullah Abdullah, said in a video message that Ghani had left the country.
Former president Hamid Karzai tweeted that a coordination council comprising Abdullah Abdullah, Hezb-e-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and himself (Karzai) had been formed following Ghani’s departure to manage the transfer of power.
In a statement in Pashto, the Taliban claimed “all parts of the country have come under the control of the 'Islamic Emirate'.
The take over by the radicals has obviously generated anxious moments on what would be the fate of women who had faced immense hardships and tortures in 1990s when Taliban had ruled the country with iron fist between 1996 and 2001.
The Taliban spokesman said the women will have to follow Hizab and they can continue to have right to education - something denied to them when Taliban ruled 20 years before.
Embarrassed and harassed, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken rejected parallels between chaotic scenes unfolding in Kabul and the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975.
“This is manifestly not Saigon,” the US secretary of state told ABC’s This Week. “We went into Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind, and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 9/11, and that mission has been successful.”
Blinken’s rejection of any parallels with the iconic image of helicopters evacuating personnel from the US embassy in Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam war came as the skies over the Afghan capital were filled with Chinooks and Black Hawks ferrying US embassy staff to a secure location, reported 'The Guardian' newspaper.
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