Taliban's Afghanistan takeover deals a harsh blow to Biden's 'America is back' foreign policy promise

The president used his maiden trip abroad to Europe in June to trumpet the message "America is back" after four years of President Donald Trump's isolationist foreign policy, cementing partnerships with Western allies as part of a broader strategy to blunt the rise of China.Though European allies support the rapid withdrawal, there may be some cost to U.S. standing, said Gerald Feierstein, senior vice president at the Middle East Institute and a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen.

Though foreign allies understand the politics of Afghanistan and the shift in America's interests, the withdrawal's chaotic unfolding may benefit Russia and China – which Biden has labeled the biggest foreign policy threats facing the United States. As a senator in 2001, Biden voted in favor of the authorization for the use of military force that triggered the war in Afghanistan after 9/11, but he was one of the most vocal critics of further escalation as vice president during the Obama administration and opposed the decision to bolster troops there in 2009.

“This president had two decisions to make, and those are the decisions that all his predecessors had to make: Do you stay in Afghanistan forever? Or do you cut your losses and move on to what is something more strategic and vital to the United States?” said Weinstein, a professor in Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies.

This is what happens when you hire a senile, feeble old man to lead the U.S. No surprises here.

Just proves again Afghanistan not worth western lives, and for what ? not that history doesn't already provide the answer ?

What was the PROCESS TRUMP said couldn't be stopped in OHIO?

And China 🇨🇳 and Russia 🇷🇺, two formerly not so friendly dictatorships, recently concluded massive joint military exercises as a message to America 🇺🇸. At least Biden is bringing back our allies in time when Trump disastrously thought America didn’t need friends.

America has a problems Houston,Can't take cares of owned citizens

Trump signed the agreement

President Trump’s had a full set of plan and negotiations on the table with Talibans before withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan. But Biden cluelessly messed up every thing.

Hands off ethiopia, If America is the 'moral conscience' of the world. Sign me up for a one way ticket to Mars. Ethiopia usid HandsoffEthiopia bbc CNN

Yup. Biden declared it, so now it's impossible for him to reverse course. Pride and ego. He's just going to let the Taliban take away the Afghan women's civil liberties again, because it's not our problem.

Afghan women need help

Self inflicted blows lead to many questions and speculations 🙄

Biden2024: Leadership from behind [a tree]. Kabul

After getting what they wanted now they're living the poor people die like flies.

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