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Biden’s speech on Afghanistan? A disaster, that’s why. Mario Sechi’s comment

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Biden’s speech on Afghanistan? A disaster, that's why. Mario Sechi's comment

What Biden said about Afghanistan and how the director of the Agi news agency, Mario Sechi, commented on it

THE CHRONICLE OF THE EDITORIAL OF START MAGAZINE:

Biden – who had promised to avoid guaranteeing a "safe and orderly" exit, deeming "highly unlikely" that the Afghan militiamen would retake the country, including the capital – had to break a too long and noisy silence, after being overwhelmed by the accusations and denied by images that have traveled around the world: the armed Taliban entering the presidential palace while Ghani escapes abroad, the evacuation by helicopter of the US embassy staff as in the days of Vietnam, the chaos at the airport of Kabul with desperate Afghans hitching to aircraft trolleys to escape.

Biden, however, did not regret his decision and remains convinced that he made the national interest by keeping an electoral promise that, until a few days ago, still had the consent of the majority of Americans, tired of squandering money in a war that lasted 20 years. "I will not pass this war to a fifth president", he had recently warned, convinced of the uselessness of staying if the Afghan army itself, despite having numbers and means superior to the Taliban, does not fight for its country.

Presenting himself as the president with the most foreign policy experience since Eisenhower, Biden indulged in false predictions that turned out to be a boomerang, arousing doubts and perplexities even among the most trusted international allies. It is difficult to ignore the failure of intelligence, which underestimated the strength of the Taliban and overestimated the capabilities of the government forces, which turned out to be poorly trained, unmotivated, corrupt, without leadership. What surprised everyone was the speed of the Islamic extremists' advance. ( Start Magazine editorial staff )

THE TWEETS OF MARIO SECHI, ​​DIRECTOR OF AGI, ON THE SPEECH OF BIDEN:

EXTRACT FROM THE EDITORIAL BY MARIO SECHI, ​​DIRECTOR OF AGI:

Last night we also learned that an administration that has communicated since the first day (always, throughout the presidential campaign) the overturning of the decisions of the Trump administration has instead followed closely those on Afghanistan. Biden also took great care not to take responsibility for the accelerated fall of Afghanistan, he dumped everything on the shoulders of Afghan soldiers (trained by the Americans, but that's a detail), who should have gone to die while their political leaders ( supported by the Americans, but that's another detail) escaped abroad or obtained safe conduct by paving the way to Kabul for the Taliban. Not a word about the allies, about a retreat that weighs on everyone's conscience.

Biden has ordered the wrong retreat (in time and manner, in the height of the fighting season, when the snow melts and the transport routes for men and ammunition for the Taliban are opened) and on his shoulders the words that fall like boulders he said only five weeks ago, recalled by David E. Sanger in the New York Times : "There will be no circumstances where you will see people lifted off the roof of a US embassy in Afghanistan." And again: "The possibility that the Taliban will dominate everything and own the whole country is highly unlikely". We saw the helicopters on the roof of the US embassy in Kabul. We have seen the Taliban take over all of Afghanistan.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-discorso-di-biden-sullafghanistan-un-disastro-ecco-perche-il-commento-di-mario-sechi/ on Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:10:35 +0000.