* 'This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation,' State Dept. spox Ned Price said of the decision to bring in the military to evacuate embassy personnel
* 'A year ago ... the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban were not speaking to one another,' Price said touting diplomacy in the region
* 'How are you going to avoid a parallel with the fall of Saigon?' one reporter asked Pentagon press secretary John Kirby State Department spokesman
Ned Price was hounded by reporters on Thursday as he tried to explain the Biden administration's decision to evacuate much of its embassy personnel, at the same time touting 'diplomacy' advances with the Taliban.
Neither State nor Defense nor the White House have any briefings scheduled for Friday, one day after the announcement.
'This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation,' Price assured reporters numerous times throughout his briefing. 'What this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint.'
'It appears to be a preparation for a full evacuation,' one reporter said. 'That's not true,' the spokesman responded.
'I respect you and we all know you have a job to do,' CBS reporter Christina Ruffini said to Price.
'But there is no way you can sit there and say that the people of Afghanistan watching the Taliban take over provinces, watching their country crumble are now going to watch American diplomats get on military planes and leave the country that that sends a signal that the U.S. is with them in the long haul diplomatically.'
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WNU Editor: It was quite a sight to see yesterday when the spokesmen for the State Department and the Pentagon appeared separately to explain what the U.S. was going to do in Afghanistan (see above videos). To say it was a disastrous performance is an understatement.
It is also telling that neither State nor Defense nor the White House have any briefings scheduled for Friday, and President Biden or Vice-President Harris are nowhere to be seen.
4 comments:
Reporters have beats
Every newspapers covers a multitude of areas or beats.
If reporters does not haver interesting news to report on for their beat they get downsized or the career starts to cavitate.
So the hoax person has a 3 day weekend. Come Monday the reporters will be loaded for bear.
Maybe DARTH SIDIOUS can pull another 2 day work week with the balance of time the Sith's time spent in Delaware.
This debacle is exactly what happens when there is no president in charge of the government.
There are people running the government but not coordinated and not working to a common goal. It’s every Duke looking out for himself.
Chaos.
Don’t think the Chinese and Russians and North Koreans and Germans don’t notice and are chilling letting this opportunity pass them by. It will get worse.
I find it nearly impossible to believe that the Taliban are simply driving into the next town down the road with little to no reporting mentioning any conflict.
20 years of training and supplying and they still are a bunch of losers. What happened to those who fought against the Ivans and fellow countrymen?
Not my country, region, or people.
Where do I get my refund?
The "press" feels betrayed. Kinda like a wife finding out not only does the hubby have a lover, but that he's been lying through his teeth about it.
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