US President Joe Biden is being criticized for the rush withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan but he defends his decision of snubbing Afghans saying he stands by it.
He has allowed sending another 6,000 US troops in the country, which is at a critical juncture of history after the US military stayed there for 20 years, for the evacuation operation.
The new military mission will evacuate the civilians of the US and allied countries along with Afghans who were part of the American establishments during its stay in Afghanistan.
Our current military mission in Afghanistan will be short in time and focused in its objectives: Get our people and our allies to safety as quickly as possible. pic.twitter.com/eSESK5QR09
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 17, 2021
Biden said he would not let American soldiers die in a war in which their Afghan counterparts were not willing to lay down their lives.
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This has come after the walkover that the Taliban got as they advanced towards Kabul and faced no resistance from the Afghan forces.
Rather, scenes of surrender and dereliction of duties were filmed in different regions of the country previously at war.
Biden took all criticism on the widely-condemned early pullout of the US military in Afghanistan but refused to accept the defeat.
He said that the events happening today in Afghanistan could have happened 5 years ago or 15 years later.
The social media users around the world particularly the Afghan diaspora picked apart Biden for leaving the women and children behind as it did not implement its withdrawal plan.
They said that thousands of young Afghan women are in tenterhooks after the Taliban take over and fear that they will never be able to live a life they dreamt of.
Several users also reprimanded the US for not building the state institutions during its two-decade-long stay in Afghanistan but rather feeding puppet presidents and the Afghan military which served their goals rather than the Afghan people.
US had announced complete withdrawal from Afghanistan until September 11 but it expedited the process and exit the country on July 4 after which the Taliban began their conquest.