EDITORIAL: Biden dances to the Taliban’s tune

The president of the United States is expected to beryllium the person of the escaped world. But President Joe Biden is present taking his directions from the Taliban.

On Tuesday, the Biden medication announced that it would not beryllium extending its Aug. 31 deadline to propulsion American troops retired of Afghanistan. There is nary warrant that each American citizens volition person been evacuated by then, particularly those who are extracurricular Kabul.

Over the past fewer days, Americans person been horrified by accounts of the Taliban beating U.S. citizens. The Taliban and the chaos extracurricular the airdrome prevented immoderate U.S. citizens from reaching safety. The U.S. Embassy besides sent conflicting messages astir what U.S. citizens should do. Despite Mr. Biden’s assurances, even Democrats are openly acknowledging that if helium insists connected this timeline, radical volition beryllium near behind.

“You’re not going to get everybody out,” said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., arsenic reported by ABC News. “You whitethorn get the immense bulk of American citizens out.”

That is evidently unacceptable. Things look adjacent worse for the Afghans who helped the United States during the war. The Taliban is already reportedly looking for and executing them. Now, it says it won’t let immoderate Afghans to permission the country. To the U.S.’s shame, Mr. Biden appears acceptable to condemn galore of them to death.

On Tuesday, Fox News reported that the G7 nations had agreed to archer the Taliban that they would beryllium staying past Aug. 31. But Biden didn’t spell along. He’s moving connected the Taliban’s timeline, and the Taliban wouldn’t hold to let U.S. troops to enactment immoderate longer.

This is simply a caller low, adjacent for the antheral who opposed the raid to instrumentality retired Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Biden’s failures aren’t constricted to a willingness to permission U.S. citizens and our Afghan allies successful the hands of a murderous regime. Over the past 20 years, the U.S. spent tens of billions of dollars connected weapons for the Afghan information forces. Much of that is now successful the hands of the Taliban. That includes instrumentality guns, Humvees and nighttime imaginativeness goggles. Hopefully, the Taliban doesn’t person the logistical capableness to run the Black Hawk helicopters it captured.

As we adjacent the day of 9/11, it’s apt that Mr. Biden has near the Taliban amended equipped and much almighty than the U.S. recovered them 20 years ago.

He’s shredded the U.S.’s credibility with our allies arsenic well. They openly uncertainty our willingness to basal alongside them successful the future.

The U.S. has the strongest subject successful the past of the world. But adjacent our equipped forces tin beryllium crippled by a weak, incompetent president. It’s evident to the Taliban, our allies and our enemies that’s precisely what Mr. Biden is.