President Biden stressed the need for changing the “perception” of the Taliban’s progress in Afghanistan, “whether it is true or not,” during a phone call with former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani less than four weeks before Kabul collapsed, according to a new report.
According to a transcript of the July 23 presidential call reviewed by Reuters, Biden didn’t anticipate the Taliban’s rapid advance across Afghanistan, which ended when they stormed Kabul on Aug. 15 and Ghani fled the presidential palace. Instead, Biden focused much of the 14-minute call on the Afghan government’s “perception” problem, Reuters reported.
“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
“Reuters reviewed a transcript of the presidential phone call and has listened to the audio to authenticate the conversation. The materials were provided on condition of anonymity by a source who was not authorized to distribute it,” the news agency said.
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According to the report, Biden lauded Afghan armed forces and said, “You clearly have the best military”. “You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well,” Biden told Ghani in the 14-minute phone call. “You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well,” Biden said to Ghani.
“We are going to continue to fight hard, diplomatically, politically, economically, to make sure your government not only survives but is sustained and grows,” said Biden.
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NOTHING will happen to cranky old Joe. The Biden family are above the law. Nothing will happen to Hunter quid-pro-quo. Merrick Garland is thee most corrupt AG, after Eric Holder.
When it came to former President Trump, all he had to do was sneeze, and the sanctimonious democrats with their help from the 5th column media, and their buddies in the FBI (Strzok, McCabe, Comey,etc), already had him impeached the next day. The double standard is glaring.
Quid pro quo Joe
Talk about transparency! Can’t this president do anything right?
its true if Trump would do that the democrats would ask to impeach him.But sleepy jo can do everything and now body cares. what a Party this democrats a bunch of liars
Oh, please. Biden was advising Ghani to “lie” in order to maintain the morale of the Afghan troops. This is a universal military tactic, no more, no less.
This is nothing like former President Donald J. Pinocchio.
First of all, this wasn’t an illegal request, such as pressuring an Ukrainian president to announce an investigation about a potential political opponent. This was an attempt to prod the Afghan president to forcefully stand up against the taliban. For many years the government did not disclose the true number of casualties at Pearl Harbor in order to keep up support of the war. We can agree or disagree with that strategy.
A democrat President is ok to lie
Key difference. Donald Trump asked Ukraine to lie in order to directly help his own upcoming election. This here was not related to an election.
Please don’t impeach Joe, that would only result in Kamala getting the crown
We already know what happ
The editor here is a Biden hater. Biden wanted to encourage the Afghan leader not to desert by downplaying the Taliban’s strength in which he was unccessful. You are allowed to lie in order to protect people from death. Trump killed people by downplaying the virus.
hey fellas, i want to remind you that trump signed a deal with the taliban to get out by may 1
his exit would have been as chaotic as the january 6 insurrection
so save us your hatred of biden
oh , and by the way, did mexico pay for that wall yet? hahahaha
the kettle calling the pot a liar
> Liam K. Nuj
> “lie” in order to maintain the morale of the Afghan troops
The quote in the article includes the phrase (for example) “around the world”. I do not believe that Afghan troops qualify as “around he world”.
> yechiell
Trump’s deal came with serious conditions imposed on the Taliban and on the deal, but the Taliban failed to meet those conditions, and so the US was free to do as it chose. One small example of a serious condition was progress towards a coalition government, and clearly that did not even get out of the starting gate.
Yecheil,
One word
MOAB
coffee addict – not all of us are so hip. what the heck is moab?
georgeg – so according to u, trump would have stayed in afghanistan. wonderful !!! so we might have had a 40 year war, or 100 year war – it’s happened before. feh !
>georgeg
Read the article again. This time carefully.