U.S. Allies, World Leaders Blast Biden Over Afghanistan Debacle, Question U.S. Resolve

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America’s closest allies said Sunday that President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan left them questioning the United States’ resolve and Biden’s leadership.

The Washington Post reports that U.S. allies are complaining “that they were not fully consulted on a policy decision that potentially puts their own national security interests at risk — in contravention of President Biden’s promises to recommit to global engagement” and that “many around the world are wondering whether they could rely on the United States to fulfill long-standing security commitments stretching from Europe to East Asia.”

Leaders in the United Kingdom, a close ally of the United States and a cooperative leader in the global war on terror since the George W. Bush administration, had some of the harshest criticism for Biden on Sunday.

Fox News reported that U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson pinned the blame for the collapse of Afghanistan on Biden himself. “Johnson said it was ‘fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold,’ but urged western leaders to work together to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a ‘breeding ground for terrorism.’”

“I think it is very important that the West should work collectively to get over to that new government – be it by the Taliban or anybody else – that nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror and we don’t think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status,” Johnson said.

Source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-allies-world-leaders-blast-biden-over-afghanistan-debacle-question-u-s-resolve?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_content=ncl-5KPdr8W7Qe&_nlid=5KPdr8W7Qe&_nsid=b4d3f7dd-f2c1-4d33-8cc6-98e7a21eb622