A sort ofIn the end, everything happened one after another: I couldn’t wait for the arrival of the entire security force. On Sunday, aerial photos showed the U.S. Embassy in Kabul hastily evacuated. The Black Hawk helicopter flew back and forth between the diplomatic mission building and the airport. Thick smoke rose from the roof of the embassy. The US confirmed that they are processing “sensitive documents” that they have not processed Taliban Want to leave to destroy.
On Sunday, it is said that most diplomats and civilian staff should be evacuated within the next 72 hours. So far, Biden’s policy is to leave the country before August 31. First, embassy staff were taken to safety, then other American citizens, and then Afghans holding immigrant visas. It is also studying whether people currently applying for visas and Afghan nationals working as local staff in embassies can be deported.
In forward defense
A core group of diplomats were taken to the US facility at the airport, where they will stay indefinitely. The embassy will be closed on Tuesday at the latest. Just two days ago, a spokesperson for the State Council stated that the embassy would remain open. In this case, these words no longer last. The withdrawal is so chaotic that Republican Rep. Liz Cheney stated that this is not to end an endless war, but to strengthen the enemy’s surrender.
Facing the disaster, the Biden administration turned to crisis communication.During the U.S. negotiations Zalmay Khalilzad During the talks with the Taliban in Qatar, while trying to obtain assurances that Islamists would not attack the embassy, they spread images on social media that should have humiliated Washington: In several cities, the Taliban did not fight in some cities after the government The collapse of the army. They took a photo with the American Humvee armored vehicles and heavy weapons equipped with the Afghan Armed Forces. It is said that they took more sensitive equipment with them when they retreated. A video from Kandahar Airport shows how the Taliban donated a Black Hawk helicopter to the Afghan armed forces.
In view of these images and criticisms of Republicans, Biden became avant-garde: at the weekend seat at Camp David, after video consultations with the core security cabinet, he issued a statement aimed at demonstrating determination and assigning responsibility for the disaster to others. People: The president first recalled that the use in Afghanistan is fatal Osama Bin Laden Its terrorist network al Qaeda has also been dismantled. Biden insisted that if the Afghan armed forces “cannot or will not” defend their country, another military presence in one or five years will not change anything.
