Former US president Donald Trump on Saturday used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to accuse his successor, Joe Biden, of surrendering “in defeat” by withdrawing from Afghanistan. during a campaign-style video message, Trump lamented the chaotic withdrawal folks troops from Afghanistan last month which led to the killing of 13 US service members and dozens of Afghans during a bombing outside the Kabul airport.
“This may be a very sad day,” Trump said within the message.
“It is additionally a tragic time for the way our war on people who did such harm to our country ended last week,” he added.
Trump was pertaining to the US’ Afghanistan invasion in 2001 to eliminate Al Qaeda within the wake of the 9/11 attacks and therefore the chaotic withdrawal after 20 years that saw the return of the Taliban within the war-torn country. The us had toppled the Taliban regime during a bid to seek out Al Qaeda leaders, especially their chief Osama bin Laden , who had planned the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
The former US commander-in-chief, whose administration oversaw the withdrawal affect the Taliban last year, said that Biden was made “look sort of a fool”, stressing that it can never be allowed to happen. Trump blamed the chaotic withdrawal on “bad planning, incredible weakness and leaders who truly didn’t understand what was happening.”
“Joe Biden and his inept administration surrendered in defeat,” he continued. “We will struggle to get over the embarrassment this incompetence has caused.”
On Saturday, Biden started a full day of memorial events from Ground Zero, the location where the planet Trade Center’s World Trade Center once stood. He then began visit Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a hijacked plane crashed during a field as passengers tried to require control of the flight from terrorists.
“Twenty years ago, nearly 3,000 lives were curtail by an unspeakable act of cowardice and hatred on 9/11. As a nation, we must not ever forget those we lost during one among the darkest moments in our history and therefore the enduring pain of their families and loved ones,” the US president tweeted.