Instead, it was from a night vision camera inside the dark interior of the aircraft that a fuzzy photograph – bound to go down in history – was taken of Major General Chris Donahue, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division, who was on board the aircraft. . C-17.
“In awe of our Sky Dragon Soldiers,” pentagon, which released the photo, ostensibly to suppress more outrageous photos of the return, said in a statement, “It was an incredibly difficult, pressing mission fraught with many complications, with threats active throughout. Our soldiers displayed patience, discipline and empathy.”
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Thus ending Washington’s longest war, a 20-year military campaign variously described as humiliating and humiliating, followed by the 9/11 terrorist attack on the US mainland aimed at avenging About 3000 Americans died from “It was not a cheap mission. It cost 2,461 American service members and civilians killed and over 20,000 wounded,” US CENTCOM commander General Kenneth McKenzie said, summarizing the battle.
Although many Americans and thousands of their Afghan allies remain stranded in the country, President Biden said it was the “unanimous recommendation of the joint chiefs and all of our commanders to conclude our airlift mission as planned” by August 31. time limit.
“His view was that ending our military mission was the best way to protect the lives of our soldiers, and to secure the possibilities of civilian departure for those who want to leave Afghanistan in the coming weeks and months,” Biden said. , who is expected to speak to Americans in greater detail on the subject in a televised address on Tuesday, said in a statement, keeping the prospect of further evacuations.
The president’s top aides echoed similar expectations, even as they announced that Washington had ended the US diplomatic presence in Kabul and the US mission would now operate from Doha, Qatar. “A new chapter in America’s engagement with Afghanistan has begun – one in which we will move forward with diplomacy. The military mission is over, a new diplomatic mission has begun,” Secretary K. State Antony Blinken said, in a modest form of Taliban recognition, putting the best spin that even supporters of the Biden dispensation acknowledged was a nuisance.
but even as US State Department Calls on Taliban to fulfill commitments of “freedom of travel, respecting basic rights of the people, fighting terrorism, not committing retaliatory violence against those who persevere”, First report of action on revenge killings and entertainment Afghanistan has come to the fore.
Afghan folk singer Fawad Andarabi was dragged and killed by the Taliban from his home in a province north of Kabul on Friday, CNN quoted a local journalist as saying, even as the new arrangement in Kabul made music non-stop. Told Islamic. A Taliban spokesman said they would “instead of pressurizing people to persuade them not to do such things.”
Such claims of moderation were falsified by photos circulated on social media – unauthorized but retweeted by US lawmakers — showing the Taliban hanging an Afghan interpreter who works with Americans from a US helicopter. who had fallen in the hands of terrorists.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz tweeted, “This horrifying image sums up Joe Biden’s Afghanistan devastation: Taliban hangs a man from a US Blackhawk helicopter. Sad. Unthinkable.”
Many US lawmakers were outraged that the administration had locked up hundreds of Americans and left hundreds of Americans at the mercy of the Taliban. But adding that the remaining Americans in Afghanistan were in the low hundreds, Centcom Commander McKenzie said the US was going to get them out.
“I think we are also going to negotiate very hard and very aggressively to get our other Afghan allies out. Our desire to get these people out is as strong as ever,” he said.
None of the American or Afghan nationals were on the last five military planes to leave Kabul – as the Taliban forced them out of the airport.
In the US, critics and defenders of the Biden administration have sparred over the debacle in the entertainment world.
“Shitsho in Afghanistan has a lot of multi-administrative flaws. Where were you when your racist draft-dodging hero was calling our own military soldiers and women “losers and suckers”?” Singer Richard Marx asked the pro-Trump actor, who came under fire from the Biden administration, for the fuss.
On his part, former President Trump issued a statement saying, “Never in history has the withdrawal from war been so badly or inefficiently as the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
“Apart from the obvious, all equipment must be sought to be returned to the United States immediately and this includes every penny of $85 billion in costs. If it is not given back, we will either have to w/ the obvious military Must go to the force and get it, or at least bomb the hell out of it. No one ever thought of such folly as this weak-minded withdrawal possible!” he added.
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