The electronic screen shot on August 16 shows that US President Biden is speaking at the White House in Washington on the situation in Afghanistan. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie
The Afghan government quickly collapsed under the sharp attack of the Taliban and , which caught US President Biden by surprise. So what is his opinion on this? Biden made a speech on August 16, reiterating that the US military has completed its anti-terrorism mission in Afghanistan. It is not in the interests of the US to continue to station troops. The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is the correct decision. He also admitted that the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated faster than the US expected.
Next, let's sort out the main points of Biden's speech.
Enlarged moves at the opening, no longer holding high the banner of American democracy
In October 2001, the United States launched the Afghanistan War to overthrow the Taliban regime in the name of combating al-Qaeda and the Taliban. In the past 20 years, the United States has invested a lot of resources in Afghanistan, supported the Afghan government, trained the country’s regular army, and tried to make Afghanistan a "model of a democratic country."
However, on August 16, Biden said: “Our mission in Afghanistan should never be nation-building. It should never be to create a unified, centralized democracy. Our only important national interest in Afghanistan is today. It’s still the same as before: prevent terrorist attacks on the United States.”
shook the pot easily to his predecessor Trump
In his speech, Biden defended his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan quickly, saying that his predecessor, the former president, The agreement reached between Lampe and the Taliban is one of the main reasons for today's situation.
Biden said: "When I took office, I inherited an agreement negotiated between President Trump and the Taliban. According to his agreement, the U.S. military will withdraw from Afghanistan before May 1, 2021, that is, I took office. A little more than three months later. During the Trump administration, the U.S. military has shrunk from approximately 15,500 U.S. troops to 2,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan. The Taliban are in their strongest military state since 2001. As your president, The choice I have to make is to either implement the agreement or prepare to fight the Taliban again. There will be no ceasefire after May 1. There is only one cold reality: either implement the withdrawal agreement, or the conflict escalates and let the numbers go. Thousands of American troops rejoined the fighting in Afghanistan and hobbled into the third decade of the conflict."
throws the pot to the Afghan authorities again: they fled
and it is not enough just to let the predecessor take the blame, Biden continues to throw the pot. The pot gave the Afghan authorities: "Afghan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The development of the situation in the past week proves that it is the right decision to end US military involvement in Afghanistan." Biden said that the situation in Afghanistan is more developed than the US authorities. Expected to be faster, but he defended the withdrawal of American troops.
Biden said: "We spent more than $1 trillion. We trained and equipped an Afghan army of about 300,000 troops. It has incredible equipment. This force is larger than the armies of many of our NATO allies. It’s all big. We provided them with all the tools they might need. We paid their salaries and provided maintenance for their air force, which the Taliban did not have. The Taliban did not have an air force. We provided close air support. If Afghanistan Now that there is no real resistance to the Taliban, even if the United States stationed troops for another year, another year, five years, or twenty years, it would not have any effect."
In fact, history has proven time and time again that the United States supports The comprador government of China is impossible to win the hearts of the people, and even the artisan cannot turn the tide.
In August 2021, the Afghan government forces disintegrated, and President Ghani announced his resignation and left Afghanistan.
In April 1975, the South Vietnamese army disintegrated, and the president Nguyen Van Thiau resigned and left Vietnam.
continues to draw a pie with a consistent attitude towards allies.
For allies, Biden said: “In the coming days, we intend to transport thousands of American citizens who have been living and working in Afghanistan. We will continue to support civilians. The civilian staff of our allies who are still serving in Afghanistan have left safely. The Operation Allies Refuge, which I announced in July, has transferred 2,000 Afghans and their families who are eligible for special immigrant visas to the United States. ."
On April 29, 1975, in the South Vietnamese capital Saigon , on a helicopter, it seemed that it could not take off because of overload. At this time, a US officer punched a South Vietnamese man down. This scene is called "Saigon Iron Fist" and is widely circulated.
However, only people deemed "qualified" by the U.S. government can leave safely. What about people who are not qualified and want to leave? According to CCTV News, the US military opened fire on some Afghans at Kabul Airport on August 16, killing at least three people.
Biden said: "I also want to admit how painful this is for many of us. The scenes we saw in Afghanistan are heartbreaking."
On August 16, Kabul International Airport , picking up an American plane The Afghans who failed to fall from the sky
do not know whether the scenes Biden saw in Afghanistan include the shooting and killing of Afghans at Kabul Airport by the US military and Afghans falling from the sky.
(Dazhong.com·Poster News Editor Jiang Hui Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency, China Youth Daily, CCTV News Client, etc.)
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