Written by Nathaniel Mannor
The Taliban has overtaken Herat and Kandahar, two of the three largest cities in Afghanistan, and moves closer to seizing the nation’s capital, Kabul, thereby taking over the country. Other nations looked to America for protection and support in their hour of need throughout history, such as Britain, France, South Korea, South Vietnam, Israel, etc. But on August 31, after 20 years of bloodshed, the war in Afghanistan is coming to an end.
Rather than defeat the Taliban and prevent them from taking over the country, President Biden plans on a full-scale withdrawal of the 1,400 troops stationed there. What’s worse is that the Taliban threatening Kabul also puts the U.S. embassy in danger. So although Ned Price claimed, “The embassy remains open… And we plan to continue our diplomatic work in Afghanistan,” the State Department Spokesperson is mistaken.
Although the U.S. urged the Taliban not to seize the embassy in Kabul, President Biden has sent in 3,000 troops to protect the embassy and evacuate the staff there. The president undertook this measure to protect the embassy against an imminent siege from the Taliban to avoid the infamous evacuation of the Saigon embassy in 1975, officially ending the Vietnam War.
This is yet another dark mark on the Biden Doctrine of kowtowing to our enemies while suffering innocent civilians. In his six-month presidency, he’s let undocumented immigrants overrun the Southern Border, turned his head when Hamas attacked Israel and pressured Netanyahu to call a ceasefire, and prevented Cuban refugees from seeking asylum. By the way, these Cuban migrants floated on buoys or cars for 90 miles in shark-infested waters to reach America, where the government praises the Cuban regime. And now Biden has left Afghanistan to terrorists. He needs to take a page out of the Trump Doctrine: stand up to our enemies and always put America first.
