What Biden said about Afghanistan and how the director of the Agi news agency, Mario Sechi, commented on it
. “Highly unlikely” that the Afghan militiamen would reconquer the country, including the capital – he 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 flees abroad, the evacuation of US embassy personnel by helicopter as in the days of Vietnam, the chaos at Kabul airport with desperate Afghans hitching to aircraft trolleys to escape.
Biden, however, has not regretted his decision and remains convinced that he has 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. “They will not pass this war on to a fifth president”, he had recently warned, convinced of the futility of staying if the Afghan army itself, despite having numbers and means superior to the Taliban, does not fight for their 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 perplexity 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, ABOUT BIDEN’S SPEECH:
Biden makes an isolationist speech, ignores Europe, the sacrifice made by European countries, and a speech turned on the American interest, never mentions the allies.
– Mario Sechi (@masechi) August 16, 2021
The Biden administration has worked so far to overturn every program of the Trump administration. Tonight we discover that the only plan that hasn’t changed is the one on Afghanistan.
– Mario Sechi (@masechi) August 16, 2021
Biden spoke to the Americans, but in doing so he tells the Europeans one thing clear: we have not done “nation building”. The European Union must reflect on this for current and future missions.
– Mario Sechi (@masechi) August 16, 2021
The most serious thing in Biden’s speech: blaming the Afghans after 20 years of American occupation and the narrative on the construction of the Afghan army, of institutions. The total denial of the principles of “nation building”
– Mario Sechi (@masechi) August 16, 2021
What Biden is saying contradicts all the documents published by NATO. All.
– Mario Sechi (@masechi) August 16, 2021 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 and another detail) fled 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.
