{"id":146260,"date":"2021-11-30T23:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=146260"},"modified":"2021-11-30T23:16:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:16:53","slug":"what-biden-said-after-kabul-isis-k-suicide-bomb-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/what-biden-said-after-kabul-isis-k-suicide-bomb-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"What Biden said after Kabul ISIS-K suicide bomb blast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;The worst that can happen has happened&#8217;: What Biden said after Kabul ISIS-K suicide bomb blast that killed 13 service members and just days before he said Afghan evacuation was an &#8216;extraordinary success&#8217;, report claims<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Upon learning during an Afghanistan briefing of the bombing, there were gasps throughout the room and Biden winced before going silent for a long pause<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8216;The worst that can happen has happened,&#8217; the president said once he broke the silence, meeting participants told the New York Times\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The death toll eventually rose to 13 US service members and over 170 Afghans<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>On Aug. 31, Biden defiantly dubbed the withdrawal an &#8216;extraordinary success&#8217;<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The commander-in-chief said the operation couldn&#8217;t have been done in a &#8216;more orderly manner&#8217;<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Biden&#8217;s gut reaction to the news that a deadly suicide bomb had gone off amid the American evacuation from Afghanistan\u00a0has been revealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During an Afghanistan briefing on Aug. 26, head of US Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie turned ashen as he was handed a piece of paper. He told the meeting, which he&#8217;d called into by video, that a bomb had been detonated near the Hamid Karzai Airport &#8211; four services members were already dead, three near dead, dozens more injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were gasps throughout the room and Biden winced before going silent for a long pause. &#8216;The worst that can happen has happened,&#8217; the president said once he broke the silence, meeting participants told the New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The death toll eventually rose to 13 US service members and over 170 Afghans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fateful event has since marred the Biden administration&#8217;s record and defined the frenzied withdrawal that has scored criticism from both sides. Following the attack, which terror group ISIS-K later claimed, the US carried out a retaliatory drone strike, which they initially claimed killed a terrorist but later admitted had killed an innocent family of 10, including children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president had insisted on pressing forward with the withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 troops in Afghanistan and putting an end to the 20-year war. Later, as criticism rolled in, Biden laid blame on the Trump-era peace deal with the Taliban, where his successor had promised to have troops out by May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 31, Biden defiantly dubbed the withdrawal an &#8216;extraordinary success.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/30\/22\/51169701-10260241-image-a-20_1638311414695.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 31, Biden defiantly dubbed the withdrawal an &#8216;extraordinary success&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/18\/22\/50679339-10218839-image-a-5_1637272990039.jpg\" height=\"434\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One Afghan pours water into the mouth of another who was injured in the suicide attack\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/18\/22\/50679337-10218839-image-a-6_1637273000044.jpg\" height=\"844\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds were severely injured in the attack\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/30\/22\/50679319-10260241-The_13_US_soldiers_who_were_killed_had_been_helping_Americans_an-a-19_1638310243436.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"632\"><\/p>\n<p>The 13 US soldiers who were killed had been helping Americans and allies escape as the Taliban took control<\/p>\n<p>The commander-in-chief said the operation couldn&#8217;t have been done in a &#8216;more orderly manner&#8217; and &#8216;respectfully disagreed&#8217; with critics who said he should have started the evacuation sooner to avoid the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The president also hailed the 120,000 people they have gotten to safety in &#8216;one of the biggest airlifts in history&#8217;, vowed to keep working to get Afghan allies out and said the State Department had reached out to stranded Americans 19 times since March asking if they wanted to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Let me be clear. Leaving August 31 is not due to an arbitrary deadline. It was designed to save American lives,&#8217; Biden said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, both McKenzie and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. Mark Milley have both since distanced themselv3es from the Biden strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both said\u00a0that they had advised Biden to leave a small number of troops in Afghanistan to stave off Taliban control, but the commander-in-chief insisted all needed to be removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie said he recommended 2,500 troops remain in Afghanistan. He said he&#8217;s confident Biden heard his advice, after the president told ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopoulos he couldn&#8217;t recall anyone advising him to leave troops in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan &#8230;. I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces, and eventually the Afghan government.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was present when that discussion occurred and I&#8217;m confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin said he believed leaving those last 2,500 would have led to a fight with the Taliban that would lead to a greater surge in troops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you stayed there at a posture of 2,500 certainly you&#8217;d be in a fight with the Taliban and you&#8217;d have to reinforce yourself.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Milley said that his &#8216;assessment was, back in the fall of [2020], and remained consistent throughout, that we should keep a steady state of 2,500 [troops], and it could bounce up to, to 3,500 maybe, something like that, in order to move to a negotiated gated solution.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My analysis was that an accelerated withdrawal without meeting specific and necessary conditions risks losing the substantial gains made in Afghanistan, damaging U.S. worldwide credibility and could precipitate a general collapse of the Afghan government, resulting in a complete Taliban takeover or general civil war,&#8217; Milley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He declined to say exactly what he told the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, he added, by Aug. 25, 10 days after Kabul fell to the Taliban when Biden ordered a reassessment of military strategy, top commanders were in agreement by that point on the need to move forward with the withdrawal to avoid war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/18\/22\/50679303-10218839-image-a-1_1637272947753.jpg\" height=\"764\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A suicide bombing outside the gates of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in August killed more than 170, including 11 Marines, one Army soldier and one from the Navy<\/p>\n<p>The Americans who died in the Aug. 26 attack were mostly just beginning their careers in the service, ranging in age from 20-33- Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover, 31; Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22; Cpl. Daegan Page, 23; Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, 22; Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, 20; Lance Cpl. David Espinoza, 20; Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, 20; Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, 20; Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, 20; Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23; Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25; Navy Hospitalman Maxton Soviak, 22; and Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, 23.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u00a0earlier this month unanimously passed a bill posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal after the House unanimously did the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were a total of 2,352 US soldiers killed in the two-decade Afghanistan War, known as Operation Enduring Freedom, less than the 66,000-69,999 Afghan soldiers who lost their lives in the war.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10260241\/What-Biden-said-Kabul-ISIS-K-suicide-bomb-blast-killed-13-service-members.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The worst that can happen has happened&#8217;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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