Alabama [US], August 22 (ANI): At a massive rally in COVID-19 hit Alabama, former US President Donald Trump ripped into his successor Joe Biden for the Kabul crisis, saying that recent developments in Afghanistan are a “major failure” of the current US administration’s foreign policy.
Addressing a ‘Save America‘ rally in Cullman, Trump on Saturday said that the situation in Afghanistan will go down as “one of the greatest embarrassments” and the “greatest foreign policy humiliation” in the history of the US, Sputnik reported.
Trump’s rally comes despite Cullman City Council declared a state of emergency in the city due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Trump accused US President Joe Biden of surrendering the US military bases in Afghanistan, stressing that American troops are leaving behind USD 83 billion dollars worth of military equipment.
“This will go down as one of the great military defeats of all time,” Trump said, calling the troop withdrawal a “total surrender” and a “gross incompetence by a nation’s leader,” Trump emphasized that under his presidency, this would never have happened.
The former President told the massive crowd gathered in the deep-red state that “this would have never happened if I was president.”
US is evacuating its citizens and Afghans who helped US forces in the last two decades from Afghanistan, which fell to the Taliban on August 15.
As Afghanistan plunged into chaos, Biden was criticised for hasty withdrawal from the war-torn country, which led to the collapse of the country’s government.
Trump agreed to a full military withdrawal by May 1 of this year. The Biden administration has blamed Trump for the timeline leading to the botched withdrawal.
Biden extended the deadline to September 11 and then pledged to have all US troops out by August 31.
Trump said he was tough in the negotiations and told warned the Taliban: ‘If anything happens we will reign terror upon you.’
‘Don’t touch our American citizens,’ Trump said he told the Taliban leader. ‘Don’t touch our American citizens.’

Pompeo denounces Biden administration over Afghanistan crisis

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday hit out at the US President Joe Biden for the current instability in Afghanistan and handling of the evacuation process from the country, calling it ‘a debacle of significant proportion’.
“Today, what President Biden said frankly made it worse. I didn’t hear a single thing from him today that would have given comfort to those families. There’s still no plan to get these Americans back. I didn’t hear a single thing that would give comfort to the very allies you spoke about,” The Hill quoted Pompeo as saying with Fox’s Sean Hannity on Friday.
“This is a debacle of significant proportions. We haven’t seen anything like this, the United States, in an awfully long time. America has the tools to fix this, our military could certainly figure out a way to go get these folks back and to destroy some of these billions of dollars in equipment that we left behind, but it’s going to take American resolve and leadership, and President Biden has refused to show this for the entire time,” he added.
US President Joe Biden termed the evacuation from Afghanistan the ‘most difficult and largest airlift’ ever in history on Friday.
“Kabul evacuation is among the largest and most difficult airlifts in history,” Biden said while addressing the press at the White House. He added that it’s time to end the Afghan mission and get all Americans out as Afghanistan has been taken over by the Taliban after the collapse of the government on Sunday.

Earlier on Tuesday, Biden put the blame for the current situation on the Afghan leaders, saying they gave up and fled the country.
“I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years I have learned the hard way that there was no good time to withdraw US forces,” he said.
“We were clear-eyed about the risk. The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what happened. Afghanistan‘s political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed,” he added.
Afghanistan‘s situation is dwindling as people are in rush to leave the nation after the Taliban seized control last week. On August 15, the country’s government fell soon after President Ashraf Ghani left the nation.
(ANI)