Biden under pressure to address chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan
President Biden will return from Camp David to address the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in remarks from the White House on Monday afternoon.
Just a month after Biden told reporters it was “unlikely” the Taliban would overtake the country, national security advisor Jake Sullivan acknowledged it had done just that.“The speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated,” Sullivan said on NBC’s “Today” show, even as he put the onus on Afghans to defend their own country after 20 years of American involvement.
Rep. Seth Moulton , an Iraq combat veteran, said calling Afghanistan’s fall “anything short of a disaster would be dishonest” and urged the White House to expedite the evacuation of vulnerable Afghans. “I’ve have been calling on the administration to evacuate our allies immediately — not wait for paperwork, for shaky agreements with third countries, or for time to make it look more ‘orderly.’”
Robert Gibbs, a former White House press secretary in the Obama administration, urged Biden to address the nation “very soon.” In, he said: “Imperative for the President to speak to the nation and the world. He must lay out again the reasoning behind his decisions, how he sees the future of this region & what must be done to prevent another safe haven for al-Qaeda to plan attacks.”The Taliban has regained power after nearly 20 years. Here’s what that can mean for average Afghanis.
, although airlifting them to safety — something advocates have been seeking for months — is only starting to ramp up.
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