Letter: Biden alone is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan
(Tom Brenner | The New York Times)
Demonstrators near the White House as Taliban fighters seize the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. President Joe Biden's decision not to begin a mass evacuation of Afghans months ago has left tens of thousands of people in a desperate limbo.
Our president is a reckless, inept and incompetent fool.
When most of our troops pulled out of Afghanistan in July and turned over our base at Bagram to the Afghan military, it became obvious that we were not going to be able to get most of our Afghan friends, allies and interpreters out of the country. They and their families are at great risk of being tortured and killed. And now we have found that there are many Americans who are trapped behind Taliban checkpoints and can’t safely get to the Kabul airport to leave. Biden didn’t even inform our NATO allies in plenty of time, which left them scrambling to get their people on planes.
Biden blames Trump for this mess but, up until now, he has reversed all of Trump’s policies. So why didn’t he reverse this one? This all could have been avoided. This mess is all on Biden.
Someone said, our enemies will no longer fear us and our allies will no longer trust us.
Susan Rounds, Midvale
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