Blinken in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal
Source: abc
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Bidens decision to withdraw all American troops from the country
April 15, 2021, 6:03 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Bidens decision to withdraw all American troops from the country and end America's longest-running war.
Blinken was meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, and civic figures, a day after Biden announced that the remaining 2,500 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan would be coming home by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that led to the U.S. invasion.
His trip also came after NATO immediately followed suit, saying its roughly 7,000 non-American forces in Afghanistan would be departing within a few months, ending the foreign military presence that had been a fact of life for a generation of Afghans already reeling from more than 40 years of conflict.................
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4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)FU We are leaving. This is the day, this is the time. Be ready to handle your own shit.
I don't care what their President thinks of it.
disndat
(1,887 posts)He is allowing thousands of Afghanistanis refuse in this country to save them from
the bloodbath that is sure to follow.
paleotn
(17,876 posts)NOT been a blood bath of one form or another? Pre dates the Macedonians I'd bet.
2naSalit
(86,308 posts)This is the new magic word meant to diminish the intent of these policies and decisions. Nobody is selling anything. They are going to these location to tell/explain to/negotiate with those impacted what the deal is and how the admin plans to go about it.
disndat
(1,887 posts)He is allowing thousands of Afghanistanis into this and other countries to save them from the
genocide that is sure to follow.
paleotn
(17,876 posts)from Alexander to Elphinstone to Brezhnev say "Well, I told you nothing would or even could be accomplished in Afghanistan, but did you listen to painful experience? Of course not."
The only difference between this and Donnie Covid's withdrawal plan is I trust Biden to do what's best for the country and not what's best for himself.