Former President Donald Trump criticized the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as “the greatest foreign policy humiliation in U.S. history” during a rally Saturday in Alabama.
Trump snatched President Biden to allow for “weakness in the White House,” saying Vietnam looks like a master class in strategy compared to Joe Biden’s catastrophe.
“This is going to fall like one of the biggest military defeats of all time and it didn’t have to happen that way,” Trump told his followers. “This was not a withdrawal, it was a total surrender, for no reason.”
“He surrendered our air base, he handed over our weapons, he surrendered our embassy,” Trump said.
The former president addressed a crowd of thousands of bright red people, Cullman, Alabama, at the rally in support of Rep. Mo Brooks, who is running for a seat in the Senate.
He criticized the value of billions of dollars in weapons and equipment the Taliban left behind and seized, possibly 600,000 assault rifles, some 2,000 armored vehicles and 40 aircraft, including Black Hawks, according to reports.
“It simply came to our notice then. Everyone [Biden] What I had to do was leave the soldiers until everyone was out, our citizens, the guns, and then bomb the hell out of the bases and say ‘goodbye,’ ”Trump said.
He said that after twenty years of conflict, his administration determined that it was time for American troops to leave Afghanistan, but to march “with dignity.”
“Soon we will have 9/11 and we will have, because of Biden, the Taliban flag flying over the embassy.”
Trump defended his original negotiations with Taliban leaders during his presidency, in which he said he orchestrated a “conditions-based agreement” for the U.S. withdrawal with the extremist group, whom he described as “big negotiators ”and“ tough fighters ”.
The former president said he had made it clear when he met with Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar that Americans and the U.S. government would be protected in the event of a military withdrawal.
“With me in charge, the Taliban would never have dreamed of capturing our airfield or parading with our American weapons,” he said.
Trump also boasted of his successes in the Middle East, including airstrikes against Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad after he allegedly used chemical weapons against his own people and the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Assad. Baghdadi on a US military raid.