Afghan President Flees as Capital Falls: Taliban Controls 100% But Who's the Real Winner

 

Ghani: “I’m outta here. Good luck to others” (sic)

(FYI: They’ll need more than luck)

Taliban takes Kabul - occupation now 100% 

(Dark days and harsh measures ahead)

Major breaking news on the mess in Afghanistan with this headline from Business Insider:

“Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan for Tajikistan as Taliban fighters enter Kabul”

·  Ghani has gone into exile.

·  Ghani and his team have left Afghanistan for Tajikistan.

·  The Taliban has entered Kabul and they expect to assume formal administrative control within hours.

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul earlier Sunday (August 15) as Taliban insurgents moved into further parts of the country and starting entering the Capitol (according to the AP).

President Joe Biden meanwhile has held firm on his plan to withdraw the U.S. Military from Afghanistan, bringing an end to the country's two-decade effort in the country. 

Biden on Saturday (August 14) ordered an additional 5,000 troops to Afghanistan to facilitate the “orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel and an orderly and safe evacuation of Afghans who helped our troops during our mission and those at special risk from the Taliban advance.” 

Biden said in a statement: “One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country. And an endless American presence in the middle of another country's civil conflict was not acceptable to me.”

My 2 Cents: I totally agree with Biden – if that country can’t defend itself, then no amount of American blood, sweat, tears, or money will do it for them. 

Twenty-years of our entanglement there is enough. 

If they can’t or won’t hold their own – then as President Biden says, we can’t do it for them, period.

Please read my two posts for the whole picture and how we got here. 

First, focus on Trump’s actions or inactions that got us to this point in my post here. 

Then read the full background Afghan history of this mess here. 

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