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Donald Trump, former President, criticized Joe Biden's strategy for withdrawing from Afghanistan.
He said, "He fled Afghanistan rather than following the plan our Administration left him."
Biden claimed that Trump had "left the Taliban militarily in the strongest position since 2001".
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Trump, the former President, blasted Joe Biden Saturday for not following the Republican administration's plan regarding withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump stated that he would keep America "out of endless, costly foreign wars" during his 2016 campaign. Trump continued at the White House. This weekend, Trump took the time to critique what he considers Biden's "weakness" in foreign policy.
He stated that he ran out of Afghanistan rather than following the plan left by our Administration - a plan which protected our people and property and ensured that the Taliban wouldn't dream of taking our Embassy and providing a base for new attack against America." "The ground facts would guide the withdrawal."
He said, "After I eliminated ISIS, I established credibility as a deterrent." This deterrent is gone. The Taliban has lost fear and respect for America and America's power.
Biden has sought to end the Afghan war for almost 20 years.
Biden seemed to shift blame for Afghanistan's blunders to Trump on Saturday. He said that Trump had left the Taliban in the "strongest position militarily" since 2001.
The president stated that he had inherited a deal made by his predecessor. He invited the Taliban to discuss it at Camp David on September 11, 2019, and left the Taliban in the most powerful position since 2001. He also imposed a May 1st 2021 deadline on US forces. He also reduced the number of US troops to just 2,500 shortly before he left office.
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The number of troops in the country was approximately 4,000 as of November 2017, before Trump ordered a reduction.
Biden declared in April that he wanted to withdraw all Afghan troops. Trump called it "a wonderful, positive thing to do" much to the dismay of many Republicans who were afraid of losing democratic gains.
Biden stated that he didn't want another president to inherit this long-standing conflict in his Saturday statement.
He stated that he was faced with two choices when he became President: follow through on the agreement, with a short extension to get our Forces, our allies' Forces, out safely, or increase our presence to send more American troops to fight in another country's civil war. "I was the fourth President who presided over an American troop presence to Afghanistan, and that included two Republicans and two Democrats. I wouldn't, and will never, transfer this war to a fifth.
Mazar-i-Sharif was the fourth-largest Afghan city and the last northern stronghold of the government. The Taliban took over Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday. Insurgents waged a massive military campaign to seize provincial capitals.
On Saturday, Taliban forces captured Jalalabad (capital of the eastern Nangarhar Province).
Shortly after, NBC News reported on insurgents entering Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, to "stop looting" the city.
According to the Associated Press, Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan President, fled the country when the Taliban invaded the capital. Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation in Afghanistan, stated that Ghani had fled the country. He referred to himself as the "former President".
Biden authorized Saturday the deployment of 5,000 troops to assist US personnel leaving the country.
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