Former US president, Donald Trump has continued to attack Joe Biden over his ‘foreign policy failures and dereliction of duty’ which he says has lead to the crisis in Afghanistan.
Trump said that the Kabul terror attacks which have so far killed 13 service members and 70 Afghans is as a result of “the dumbest move ever made perhaps in the history of our country.”
Trump added that Biden surrounded himself with “weak generals” who have shifted their priorities from national security to liberal politics.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said that Biden’s weakness and that of his top generals like Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Mark Milley, are misinterpreting the power of the US military members and incoherently shuffling their priorities.
Trump said Biden and the commanders sought to withdraw as he had but that they did so in a very foolish way.
“They forgot one thing, they forgot to take the people with them and the merchandise with them, meaning they forgot to take the greatest military equipment anywhere in the world with them, and it’s hard to believe, actually, because a child would have understood. You get the military out last. A child would have understood that. How could they have done this to our country?”
On the Biden admin move, Trump said, it constituted one of the worst decisions by a sitting president in United States history, as 13 service members are now dead and Kabul continues in turmoil being controlled by the Taliban and now littered with ISIS-K and Al-Qaeda terrorists.
“It’s so sad. It’s probably from the standpoint of military tactics and just embarrassment, the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to our country; we look like fools all over the world, we are weak, we are pathetic, we are being led by people that have no idea what they are doing,” Trump said.
“They take the military out and then they say now we will bring out the people, then all of a sudden, the Taliban walks in. We had the Taliban so under control they would not have moved without getting our approval. We had an incredible agreement. They weren’t killing our soldiers.”
Trump noted that Biden even referenced his predecessor’s success in that regard, saying the U.S. President acknowledged the Taliban hadn’t killed an American service member in 18 months because of the deal Trump struck with them in 2020.
“I want to tell you, I think our soldiers, even civilians, I think our soldiers are in tremendous danger. I think airplanes flying in and out of the airport are in tremendous danger. The Taliban have the best equipment, best rockets, best tanks and helicopters, Apache helicopters, a lot of them, that are immensely valuable and by the way, Russia wants them because they want to examine them because we have far superior technology, and China wants them,” Trump warned.
“This is the dumbest thing, I think it was the dumbest move anybody has ever made perhaps in the history of our country, allowing this to happen, taking the military out and then say ‘Oh, we hope to get the people out’.”
Trump said when he had personal discussions and negotiations with Taliban leader Abdul Baradar. According to the former U.S President, he made clear to the militant that any untoward acts would be met with a tenfold response by the U.S. military, unlike Biden who has no plan to attack the Taliban now.
“We had them totally under control. Every time we saw movement, we’d hit them with an F-18, and the movement stopped,” Trump said.
“But we had very little of that because of Abdul, who I spoke to, Abdul would not let anybody do anything.”
Trump added that his administration led to the defeat of ISIS because of “great generals” on the ground and not “television generals” in the US who love appearing on TV.
He added that he would not have abandoned the Bagram Air Force base, saying its strategic location near Afghan borders with China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and not far from Russia was very important.