* Ambassador Adela Raz also asked that the United States and its allies reimpose travel bans on Taliban leaders and other sanctions
* Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan's capital in 30 days and possibly take it over within 90, a U.S. defense official said citing intelligence reports
* The Taliban, who ruled the country from 1996 until U.S. forces invaded after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, captured three more provincial capitals on Wednesday
* The insurgents have no air force and are outnumbered by U.S.-trained Afghan defense forces, but they have captured territory with stunning speed
* The Taliban wants to defeat the U.S-backed government and reimpose strict Islamic law
* Raz said the 'quick' withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has 'created consequences' in her country
Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States has slammed President Biden for suggesting there's a 'political solution' to the onslaught of violent Taliban fighters amid fears Kabul could fall to them within 30 days.
Responding to Defense Department Press Secretary John Kirby's claim that it was no longer feasible for the US to offer air support to Afghan forces, Adela Raz said: 'But it is feasible because you did that. You did that post-9/11 and it you took control of the entire country in 2 weeks.'
She highlighted how there has never been an example of a government making peace with a terrorist group, and warned the US not to assume that political negotiations with the Taliban would yield positive results.
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Update #1: Exclusive: Afghan ambassador to US wants more air support as Taliban continue to gain ground (News Nation)
Update #2: Afghan ambassador to US slams Biden for political solution to Taliban (NYPost)
WNU Editor: I remember when she was appointed a few months ago it was a celebrated as a ground-breaking appointment and hailed by the White House and the media.
And now .... Afghan Ambassador to Washington Slams Biden. Why? (Al Bawaba).
1 comment:
Why is it so important to keep our diplomats from getting killed?
Why is it so important that we send 3,000 soldiers and marines to retrieve them?
Sure we would lose face, if many diplomats were killed and it would put increasingly more American overseas and at home at risk in the future. So we should avoid it. No argument there.
But if it is x many diplomats or x many soldiers does it matter?
If we had stayed in Afghanistan and there was a general war with a peer like China, would our backstabbing ally, who rides us like a bitch, flip and join the Chinese? How would we have supplied or rescued the 3,000, to 13,000 soldier in Afghanistan?
No one has satisfactorily answered that question.
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