Does John Kirby need a reminder of why he called the Afghanistan withdrawal ‘chaos?’
Zachary Faria
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National Security Council spokesman John Kirby denies that President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal was chaotic. All those deaths, including people falling off planes — that was apparently all planned for.
When discussing the Biden administration report absolving the Biden administration of any blame for the withdrawal, Kirby haughtily denied that there was any chaos. “For all this talk of chaos, I didn’t see it from my perch,” Kirby said. “I just don’t buy the whole argument of chaos.” While denying there was any chaos, Kirby also blamed all issues with the withdrawal on the Trump administration.
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So let’s run through all the non-chaotic moments that the Biden administration oversaw.
The Biden administration told Americans in Afghanistan to leave the country but also told them, and everyone, that the Taliban would not take over the country. Hundreds of Americans were left behind, helped captive by the Taliban to prevent them from leaving. Secretary of State Antony Blinken then said it was difficult to evacuate them because the Biden administration had already pulled personnel out.
Was it not chaotic when Afghans were trying to pass their babies to American troops over barbed-wire fences or falling from airplanes they were clinging to while trying to escape the Taliban? Was it Trump’s fault that the Biden administration allowed the Taliban to conquer Kabul during the evacuation, leaving the Taliban in charge of the security of American evacuation efforts?
What about when that Taliban “security” allowed a suicide bomber to kill 13 U.S. servicemembers? Or when Biden responded to that attack by launching a drone strike against an aid worker, slaughtering 10 civilians, including seven children, in the process? Those decisions obviously were not made by the Trump administration. So, if those deaths weren’t proof of “chaos,” what exactly were they? Proof of the remarkable planning and diligence of the Biden administration?
Or did Kirby just forget that he had described the first few days of evacuation as “chaos?”
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Kirby is unsurprisingly defensive about this because Biden’s approval rating never recovered from the withdrawal debacle. Biden ran as the adult in the room, the man who would bring dignity and stability back to American foreign policy. That illusion was shattered with the Afghanistan withdrawal and the Afghans falling from American planes in the sky.
Biden’s only defense was always going to be either “everything went great” or “it’s all Trump’s fault.” Evidently, Kirby and the administration decided to choose both, hoping that partisanship alone will be enough for establishment media to carry the water for them.