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'This Is Not Saigon,' But Biden's Afghanistan Debacle an 'Unmitigated Disaster of Epic Proportions'

Dale Hurd : Aug 16, 2021  CBN News

"One group will suffer more than any other by the disaster we are witnessing in Afghanistan: women & girls. God help them. [And] please "experts" save us all the platitudes [about] human rights after pleading to appease Iran & now this. There are no human rights to be had w/o security." -Rev. Johnnie Moore, a commissioner for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom

[CBN News] There were scenes of chaos in the Afghan capital of Kabul as thousands of frantic civilians, afraid for their lives under Taliban rule, desperately tried to escape. (Screengrab image)

Panicked Afghans clambered onto a plane at the Kabul airport as US soldiers fired warning shots into the air.

Hundreds of Afghans carried suitcases as they fled Kabul on foot.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted Sunday "This is manifestly not Saigon."

But it looks the same, complete with military helicopters whisking embassy personnel off of embassy grounds.

The US Embassy has been evacuated. The staff is working out of the airport to evacuate all American citizens living in the country.

The Taliban broadcast on live TV from the equivalent of the "Oval Office" at the presidential palace, after rolling into the capital Sunday as the president fled the country.

This is something President Joe Biden said six weeks ago would never happen. (Screengrab image)

A reporter told Biden, "Your Intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will collapse."

To which Biden responded, "That's not true. They did not. They didn't did not reach that conclusion. There's going to be no circumstance or you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy, the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban, overrunning, everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely."

US Rep. Michael McCaul, (R-TX), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN Joe Biden "blew it" on Afghanistan.

"I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. And I think for [Biden], this is going to be a stain on ... his presidency. And I think he's going to have blood on his hands for what they did," he explained.

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Blinken was in full damage control on the Sunday talk shows, trying to defend the US withdrawal and the chaos that has ensued.

Blinken told ABC, "The fact of the matter is this. We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago, uh, with one mission in mind, and that was the deal with the people who attacked us on 9/11. Uh, and that mission has been successful."

The Trump administration initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal, but US Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) told CBS that Trump's agreement was based on the Taliban agreeing to certain conditions.

"In fact, many of the conditions included that the Taliban wouldn't overtake the cities that they have now overtaken under president Biden's leadership," Scalise said. (Screengrab image)

The Taliban have tried to reassure frightened Afghans, but phone video showed the bodies of people who were pulled from their homes by Taliban fighters in Kandahar and shot.

Thousands of Afghans who helped the US military face a similar fate if they can't be evacuated.

Biden to Address the Nation at 3:45 pm Eastern

Meanwhile, Biden is being criticized for holing himself up at Camp David, away from journalists' potentially embarrassing questions about what his critics are calling "his" foreign policy disaster.

The White House has announced Biden will return to the White House Monday to address the nation on the US evacuation from Afghanistan, a day after the Taliban took control of the country.

The White House says Biden will travel back to Washington from the Camp David presidential retreat to speak at 3:45 pm Eastern time Monday from the East Room. It will be his first public remarks on the Afghanistan situation in nearly a week. (Screengrab image)

Rev. Johnnie Moore, a commissioner for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and the president of the Congress of Christian Leaders said in a tweet Sunday afternoon that there's one group in Afghanistan who will suffer from the Taliban's takeover—women and girls.

"One group will suffer more than any other by the disaster we are witnessing in Afghanistan: women & girls. God help them," Moore wrote. "& please "experts" save us all the platitudes a/b human rights after pleading to appease Iran & now this. There are no human rights to be had w/o security." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here







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