Former CIA analyst Matt Zeller told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Monday on her show “Deadline” that President Joe Biden lied to the American people during his address on the chaotic evacuation of Afghans that worked with our military over the last 20 years.
‘Most unnecessarily embarrassing day’
‘After the fall of the Kabul regime, the Taiwan authorities must be trembling,’ the editor of the Global Times taunted on Twitter.
‘absurdity of media mathematics’
Some 10,000 U.S. civilians reportedly remain in Afghanistan.
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin sued NASA on Monday after it awarded a lunar landing contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
‘Where the hell is President Biden?
‘Prepared for the potential of tens of thousands,’
‘An unmitigated disaster’
The Department of Defense is preparing to immediately house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, Fox News confirmed late Sunday.
An email sent to Psaki by Breitbart News was returned with an auto-reply message noting that the White House press secretary is on vacation between August 15th through the 22nd — a full week.
The State Department and Department of Defense said in a statement Sunday that there are “thousands” of Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban declared victory over the U.S.-backed government earlier in the day.
The fall of Afghanistan has shocked Obama’s former ambassador to such a degree that he is now questioning President Joe Biden’s ability to lead the nation.
Even with the withdrawal agreement in place, there was no reason to pull out this heedlessly and incompetently, to disastrous results.
David was thrilled to be uninvited as he feared he would be asked to perform a comedy routine
President Joe Biden promised Americans that the Taliban would not storm the U.S. Embassy in Kabul resulting in a helicopter airlift reminiscent of Saigon in 1975. The opposite just happened.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki is taking a break from her duties as the crisis unfolds in the Middle East
Videos uploaded from Kabul on Sunday showed chaos at the international airport as panicked people rushed to board aircraft ahead of the Taliban’s advance.
Afghanistan’s president appears to have relinquished power to the Taliban after fleeing the country, providing a pathway for Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Born in Uruzgan province in 1968 Baradar was a member of the Afghan mujahideen “freedom fighters” in the 1980s during the battle over control of Afghanistan with the Soviet Union.
President Joe Biden plans to remain hidden at his presidential retreat at Camp David until Monday, according to the White House, as the Taliban swiftly seized control of Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have avoided going on camera as Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban on Sunday.
Recent developments may spur the Chinese government to expedite the process of recognition
Fears are growing that the Taliban will move to reimplement Sharia Law with their trademark brutal enforcement
Biden remarked on July 8 that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was ‘not inevitable’
‘will first declare victory over … the Americans who were in Afghanistan for 20 years’
‘Canadians deserve their say’
Taliban fighters were ordered to enter the capital on Sunday after briefly holding back on the outskirts of the city.
His departure comes as the U.S. takes steps to evacuate its remaining embassy staff and other personnel from Afghanistan.
The group said in a statement that its fighters would not take the city by force, and were negotiating with ‘the other side’ to enter without bloodshed.
