Former President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted President Joe Biden for not “following the plan” that the Republican administration crafted regarding a withdrawal from Afghanistan.
During his 2016 campaign and continuing at the White House, Trump said he would keep the United States “out of endless and costly foreign wars,” and this weekend, the former president took time to criticize what he perceives as Biden’s foreign policy “weakness.”
“He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him – a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America,” he said in a statement. “The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground.”
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He added: “After I took out ISIS, I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone. The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America’s power.”
Biden has long sought to end the war in Afghanistan, which has been ongoing for nearly 20 years.
On Saturday, Biden appeared to shift the blame for any sort of Afghanistan blunder to Trump, who he said left the Taliban “in the strongest position militarily since 2001.”
“When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor – which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019 – that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces,” the president said. “Shortly before he left office, he also drew US forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500.” (Business Insider Africa)
