Taliban Issues Humiliating Demand to Biden, With Deadline Sept. 11

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Taliban Issues Humiliating Demand to Biden,
With Deadline Sept. 11

August 21, 2021






Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said Biden should withdraw all U.S. troops
by Sept. 11 pursuant to a 2020 agreement the group had made with the
Afghan government.

Former President Donald Trump had negotiated the historic peace accord
between the warring factions last year, including setting a May 1, 2021 deadline
for the withdrawal of U.S forces from Afghanistan.

“I think they should get their troops out of Afghanistan,” Shaheen told Sky News
on Tuesday.

“They have already violated the time frame which was enshrined in the Doha agreement,
when they announced that they will withdraw all their forces until Sept. 11.
So they should withdraw all their forces.”

Shaheen added that “we are committed not to attack them and we have not attacked them.”

Of course, the implicit threat was that the Taliban could attack if U.S. troops are not
removed by the stated deadline.

Before this week, could you ever have imagined a scenario where the American
president — the leader of the free world – would’ve had to submit to an ultimatum
from a group of malnourished goat herders?

Could Biden be any more humiliated on the world stage?

This has been the worst week of Biden’s presidency. That’s saying a lot, given the
multiple crises ravaging the country right now, including daily border sieges,
skyrocketing inflation, soaring gas prices and nationwide crime waves.

And that’s not including the continuing revelations about the cringeworthy, drug-fueled
prostitution benders in which the president’s troubled son, Hunter Biden, has been entangled.

While the corporate media typically downplay or ignore Biden’s numerous scandals
and gaffes, he was nearly universally reviled this week for his poorly executed
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Even the left-wing apologists at CNN excoriated the 78-year-old career politician for his
abysmal lack of strategic planning.

CNN’s Jake Tapper on Afghanistan:

"[Biden] keeps trying to change the subject from this inept withdrawal.
Let’s be frank here, if you withdraw 2,500 troops then you have to send
6,000 back, that’s not planned. That’s on it's face an example of a failure.”

Julia Chatterley
@jchatterleyCNN

“It’s a failure of intelligence...lack of understanding...lack of planning...
lack of communications of honesty with the American people & with allies.”

@ianbremmer weighs in on President #Biden's role & response
in the #Taliban takeover.

On Tuesday night, Trump also laid into Biden during a wide-ranging interview with
Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Like many Americans, the former president also wants U.S. troops out of Afghanistan
after 20 years, thousands of dead soldiers and trillions of dollars wasted on another
country’s civil war.

However, it was the haphazard, chaotic manner that Biden executed the move that
drew bipartisan backlash.

“It is a terrible time for our country,” Trump told Hannity. “I don’t think in all of the
years our country has ever been so humiliated.”

He recounted: “I looked at that big monster cargo plane yesterday with people
grabbing the side and trying to get flown out of Afghanistan because of their incredible
fear — and they’re blowing off of the plane from 2,000 feet up in the air.
Nobody has ever seen anything like that.”

Trump said the harrowing scenes of America’s Vietnam debacle pale in comparison.

TRT World
@trtworld

Desperate civilians scramble to get a place on a plane at Kabul airport in Afghanistan
on Monday amid the US withdrawal.

For many, it brought back memories of Vietnam in April 1975

“That blows the helicopters in Vietnam away,” the former president said.
“That is not even a contest. It has been the most humiliating period of time
that I’ve ever seen.”

For the first time in years, there is bipartisan consensus on an issue:
Biden failed colossally, and he owns this historic catastrophe.