(CNN)President Joe Biden and his administration struggled Sunday to project order amid a race by American and other foreign personnel to evacuate Afghanistan as Taliban fighters entered Kabul.

The rapid fall of Afghanistan's national forces and government has come as a shock to Biden and senior members of his administration, who only last month believed it could take months before the civilian government in Kabul fell -- allowing a period of time after American troops left before the full consequences of the withdrawal were laid bare.

Now, months after his initial declaration that all 2,500 US troops would be out of Afghanistan by the end of the summer, a total of 6,000 troops are expected to help facilitate the evacuation.
And officials are frankly admitting they miscalculated.

"The fact of the matter is we've seen that that force has been unable to defend the country," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," referring to Afghanistan's national security forces. "And that has happened more quickly than we anticipated."
Biden is expected to address the nation in the next few days about the crisis in Afghanistan, according to a senior administration official, though a final decision on a speech hadn't been made and the President hasn't yet cut short his summer vacation visit to Camp David.

One option under discussion is to have Biden return to the White House, though the official cautioned that they had not completely ruled out making the remarks from the presidential retreat, where he was photographed on Sunday receiving a briefing from his national security team. In the photo, Biden appeared alone wearing a polo shirt in front of a large bank of monitors.

The risks for Biden politically are uncertain; a majority of Americans say in polls they support withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, and Biden's aides have calculated the country shares his weariness at prolonging a 20-year conflict.

et the chaotic scenes playing out as that war ends -- evoking the fall of Saigon in 1975, an image that haunted Biden as he weighed a withdrawal earlier this year -- are certain to trail Biden as the Taliban asserts control over large swaths of the country.

Already, some members of Congress are demanding more information from the administration on how its intelligence could have so badly misjudged the situation on the ground, or why more robust contingency plans for evacuating Americans and their allies weren't in place.
During a briefing for lawmakers on Sunday, top administration officials faced harsh questioning over the withdrawal plans, including the evacuation of Afghan interpreters and others who assisted the US war effort.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pushed the officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, on why the process happened so quickly.
"We didn't give them air cover. You say you had this plan. No one would plan out this outcome. The ramifications of this for America will go on for decades and it won't just be in Afghanistan," McCarthy said, according to a GOP source on the call.

Biden is not scheduled to return to the White House from Camp David until later this week and has not spoken publicly about the situation in Afghanistan since Tuesday. He has no events on his public schedule listed for Sunday.

A range of options are being debated -- about returning to Washington or addressing the nation -- but several officials said events were too fluid and no final decisions have been made as of Sunday afternoon.

While Biden can receive the same level of briefings from Camp David, as he has been doing throughout the weekend via a secure video conference, officials are aware of the optics of the President being out of town during this perilous moment. Several administration officials have also been on vacation, but began returning to work remotely Sunday or in the West Wing.

A White House official told CNN on Sunday that the President "has spoken to members of his national security team on the situation in Afghanistan and will continue to receive updates and be briefed throughout the day."
"He is deeply engaged from Camp David," one senior administration official said, who did not rule out the President returning to the White House.

The notion the civilian government led by former President Ashraf Ghani would be unable to withstand the Taliban's advances is not a surprise. Intelligence assessments over the past year have offered differing timetables for what was viewed by many national security officials as an inevitability.

Biden himself has said repeatedly over the last months, including when Ghani visited him in the Oval Office this summer, that Afghanistan's leaders would need to reconcile their differences if they had any hope of maintaining power.

And Blinken said Sunday that "we've known all along, we've said all along including the President, that the Taliban was at its greatest position of strength at any time since 2001 when it was last in charge of the country. That is the Taliban that we inherited. And so we saw they were very much capable of going on the offensive and beginning to take back the country."
Yet the downfall and collapse of the Afghan military has happened far quicker than Biden or his team expected.

madridguy:
. When we are saying Donald Trump is the best man for America many people are saying rubbish, simply because Trump asked everyone to stay in their respective countries, we can now see the different.

madridguy:
. When we are saying Donald Trump is the best man for America many people are saying rubbish, simply because Trump asked everyone to stay in their respective countries, we can now see the different.

Tolumiide:

Trump started the withdrawal process. It doesn't make sense fighting a war you can not win with huge resources.

BeeBeeOoh:
Our problem now is that man occupying Aso Rock not Afghanistan nor Joe Biden miscalculating.



Make everybody carry their load's respectively

proxillin:


Boko-haram real name is taliban. They started as taliban party, then later changed to boko-haram.

Its doom for nigeria...

your mumu no be here

madridguy:
. When we are saying Donald Trump is the best man for America many people are saying rubbish, simply because Trump asked everyone to stay in their respective countries, we can now see the different.

AntiBalaka:
This was no mistake or miscalculation on the part of China Joe.

The DemonRats are now not hiding their total commitment to a globalist communist one world state and are ready to be in bed with China to achieve this goal.

All western multi-national brands are fully woke and are nothing short of Neo-liberal corporations who see China as the ideal state for a global slave ran economy.

The reason why the US has been in Afghanistan all these odd 20ys was not to catch Bin Laden or to stop the rag tag Taliban but rather to ensure China does not make any inroads with the then Taliban govt in harnessing the over $2 trillion dollars worth of Rare Earth Metals which are integral in chip manufacturing, semi-conductors and also in production of EV batteries which the globalists are bent on forcing down our throats.

Elon Musk Tesla factory in China is the biggest factory ever built and Jewish banksters have poured billions into that endeavor.

I need not say much on how Jewish banksters and their masonic tools created the CCP and financed the Maoist revolution and used the Trilateral Commission to channel western Tech and finance to take China out of the carriage era to what it is now.

To really understand what is going on in Afghanistan you must understand that the US presence all these years was a hindrance to China having access to the huge deposits of rare earth metals in that country. Now that the US Is out of Afghanistan, the Taliban will sign up to the CCP Silk road initiative as that country has always been strategically located between Asia, Asia Minor and Europe. It will also see China dominate the future of EV cars and chip manufacturing.

What you are seeing in Afghanistan is the same play book used by Jewish banksters in ensuring that the entire Arabian Peninsula ended up in the hands of the Crypto Jews of the House of Saud.

proxillin:


Boko-haram real name is taliban. They started as taliban party, then later changed to boko-haram.

Its doom for nigeria...

your mumu no be here

BeeBeeOoh:
Our problem now is that man occupying Aso Rock not Afghanistan nor Joe Biden miscalculating.



Make everybody carry their load's respectively