Thousands of terrorists airlifted: Trump slams Biden over Afghan evacuation

Former US President Donald Trump has said his successor Joe Biden‘s “surrender” in Afghanistan may have led to airlifting of “thousands of terrorists” out of the country. Following the Taliban’s takeover of capital Kabul on August 15, thousands of Afghans have been trying to flee the country, with the US and UK trying to facilitate the process.

Biden had left “thousands of Americans for dead by pulling out the military before our citizens,” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday.

He claimed that out of the 26,000 people who have been evacuated, only 4,000 were Americans, and expressed concerns that the Taliban, might not have allowed the “best and brightest” to board the evacuation flights.

“Instead, we can only imagine how many thousands of terrorists have been airlifted out of Afghanistan and into neighbourhoods around the world. What a terrible failure. NO VETTING. How many terrorists will Joe Biden bring to America? We don’t know!” he said.

Republican Congressman Mike Waltz introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, condemning the “worst foreign policy blunder” in America’s modern history. Instead of heeding the advice of military leaders and lawmakers on the speed and nature of the Taliban offensive, Biden had created a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan for the sake of hogging headlines about US troop withdrawal prior to the 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks.

The resolution also condemned Biden’s alleged failure to present a coherent counter-terrorism or evacuation plan to the American people, and the embarrassment US had suffered on the world stage due to the abandonment of Afghan allies.

The resolution was co-sponsored by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik.

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Biden’s “cluelessness and stubbornness” had led to US shamefully giving away into the hands of Taliban “the freedoms of Afghans, its military equipment and infrastructure, and countless other resources,” Waltz, a veteran of the Afghanistan war, said.

He said thousands of Afghans who had stood should-to-shoulder with US troops on the battlefield had been handed a death sentence due to Biden administration’s “failure to safely evacuate them in a timely fashion.”