Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm Kabul
- U.S. president had dismissed likelihood of rapid collapse
- Militants retake power nearly 20 years after being ousted
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Just last month President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
The images of Taliban fighters inside the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday, after a series of provincial capitals fell in rapid succession and the nation’s president fled, showed just how wrong Biden’s prediction has been.