Was President Biden's Thursday's Remarks On Afghanistan The Worst Speech Of His Presidency?

 

Peter Bergen, CNN: The worst speech of Biden's presidency 

(CNN) On Thursday President Joe Biden spoke in defense of his ill-considered, hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, in remarks peopled with straw men and littered with false assertions. 

First, Biden contended that he was bound by a 2020 Trump administration agreement with the Taliban to withdraw all US troops by May 2021. But that was an agreement conducted by a previous administration -- so it's not binding -- and it was predicated on the Taliban breaking with al-Qaeda. 

They didn't, according to the UN in a report released just last month. 

It was also predicated on the Taliban engaging with the Afghan government in real peace negotiations. 

They haven't, according to Abdullah Abdullah, an Afghan official who leads the High Council for National Reconciliation. He told CNN a week ago that there has been "very little progress" in those negotiations. 

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WNU Editor: Peter Bergen's commentary is spot on. 

And what did not help the President in this news conference is that the press that were present did to President Biden what they did to President Trump for four years. But unlike President Trump who always enjoyed engaged with the President, President Biden ran out of the room after taking questions for only 13 minutes. 

Former US defense Secretary Bill Gates once said that President Biden has always been wrong when it comes to foreign policy throughout his 50 years in politics. 

Is President Biden wrong on Afghanistan? 

You tell me.

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