Jeromejnr:


Instead of spewing ignorance. You can go on msnbc and watch a U.S veteran interview on why the Afghan army couldn't fight back.

Summary, he blamed Biden and not the Afghans.

Why?

Because for years, the Afghan army weren't being funded and were ill equipped, without fuel or ammunition. Even with all that the Afghan army were still putting up a fight. And the U.S just bailed out on them.

Very incompetent administration.

FarahAideed:


Just with America's Airpower alone they could have halted any Taliban advance and that would have boosted the moral of the Cowardly Afghan troops who have never fought without the Americans guiding them

falseprophet:
Its funny but it only highlights the fact that America is not as great as they want the rest of the world to believe.

The British empire built and sustained majority of the countries of the world including America, to some its very easy to do until America decided to try their expertise in nation building with guns and trillions of dollars.

They failed shamefully in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Vietnam, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, etc

Even in their own country they have turned democracy upside down where majority vote don't count, resources controlled by the 1% with a history of overthrowing democratically elected governments and replacing with Despots.

Its time to move on from the illusion that America is the world power!

360degreess:
If you think you are useless, remember that after 20years,4 presidents, trillions of dollars, millions of lives, America has replaced Taliban with Taliban in Afghanistan.

Areola14:
With all that is happening in Afghanistan, all you could do is to freeze the billion's of dollar in the account.. how does that affect the Taliban? When they have access to crude oil, sell off their woman to Italy, harvest their children organs and sell it off to china, help in training other countries terrorist. They will have lot of money.. but is the money in the account you are after to use and build your economy... America itself is not safe oo! Now.. they need a republican president in America because that's there target... Before the end of 2021, Taliban will hit America again!

LordReed:


They had a ceasefire agreement with the Taliban, so they should have broken it?

daddytime:
$9.4b assets in reserve and they are poor?

How much does an oil-producing Nigeria have in reserve?

SportsHD:
Afghan has 70% of the Poppy farms. That's an economy on its own. Taliban go manage. That's where they get money to sponsor their allahu akbomb agenda.

The billions in the reserves, where do you think it's from? Opium baby.

FarahAideed:


My point exactly..the entire Taliban takeover was planned so why are they pretending they are suprised

LordReed:


You are saying the Americans should have intervened how should they have intervened when they were honouring the ceasefire with the Taliban?

Areola14:
With all that is happening in Afghanistan, all you could do is to freeze the billion's of dollar in the account.. how does that affect the Taliban? When they have access to crude oil, sell off their woman to Italy, harvest their children organs and sell it off to china, help in training other countries terrorist. They will have lot of money.. but is the money in the account you are after to use and build your economy... America itself is not safe oo! Now.. they need a republican president in America because that's there target... Before the end of 2021, Taliban will hit America again!

FarahAideed:


Did the Taliban honor the ceasefire when they went after a legitimate afghan govt?

BetExpert:
Story. Taliban can make all that money back in 2 weeks

ReneDaniels:
I feel Biden made the right move.. People complaining the air space is open for them o.. They can fly or take the nearest bus to afghan and help them fight.. Even a child would fight back when his or her elders have thought em so,much, America has defended em enough na their cross to carry ... The account bronzed is the best Joor and their small gain .

A305:
Too late, This will only weaken their currency against the USD — but doesn't mean Taliban can't get money to run their country now turned Emirate.

HardMirror:
why must it be USA? must they police Afghanistan? they have supported the army of afghanistan with equipment and all, yet you guys are not blaming the Afghan army for failing to protect their own country, instead you are blaming usa

Jeromejnr:


Instead of spewing ignorance. You can go on msnbc and watch a U.S veteran interview on why the Afghan army couldn't fight back.

Summary, he blamed Biden and not the Afghans.

Why?

Because for years, the Afghan army weren't being funded and were ill equipped, without fuel or ammunition. Even with all that the Afghan army were still putting up a fight. And the U.S just bailed out on them.

Very incompetent administration.

HardMirror:
he is a pussy for stopping the waste of money USA was incurring? how can afghan forces lose control of their nation just under 10 days despite the money usa has spent to equip and train them? so you want usa to remain there forever abi?

ThierryJay:


Biden has been there for only 7 months! So how does this fall on him and not on Trump based on your own statement? When Trump signed off America to withdraw from Afghanistan by May 1st, were you expecting them to still remain there in July to keep fighting for Afghan forces?

If they fight and hold off the Taliban now, and leave by October instead, are you still not going to say the same thing when the Taliban takes over the country in November? Or is the expectation that American soldiers should never leave Afghanistan to ward off Taliban, in which case you'd be saying Trump was wrong ab initio to sign off on withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

Or is it just a case of blame Biden syndrome for you whether it makes sense or not?

ryloy:
The Biden administration reportedly froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts Sunday, after the Taliban seized the capital city of Kabul this weekend, effectively toppling the country's government.

The Washington Post reported that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and personnel at the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control decided to freeze the accounts, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The move effectively blocks the Taliban from accessing the billions of dollars that were being stored in U.S. institutions, the Post reported.

"Any Central Bank assets the Afghan government have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban," an administration official told the newspaper in a statement.

The State Department was also reportedly part of conversations this weekend regarding the accounts, and White House officials were said to be watching the developments.

The Hill has reached out to the Treasury Department for more information.

The reported move by the administration is the first in what is expected to be a number of important decisions top officials will face as they grapple with the return of the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan this weekend following a withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, and relies heavily on American aid that is now in question.

The Afghan central bank had $9.4 billion in reserve assets as of April, according to the International Monetary Fund, which the Post noted is equivalent to about a third of the country's yearly economic output.

The majority of those reserves, however, are not kept in Afghanistan, a source told the Post. Billions of dollars are reportedly held in the U.S., but the exact amount is not known.

The Biden administration did not need new authority to freeze the reserves because the Taliban was already under sanctions from an executive order approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, former Obama administration official Adam Smith told the newspaper.

Smith served on the National Security Council and as a senior adviser to the director of the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control under the Obama administration.

The news comes after Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban and a key leader of the group, arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday for the first time in more than 10 years.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/568209-biden-administration-freezes-afghan-government-reserves-in-us-banks?amp

Jeromejnr:


Instead of spewing ignorance. You can go on msnbc and watch a U.S veteran interview on why the Afghan army couldn't fight back.

Summary, he blamed Biden and not the Afghans.

Why?

Because for years, the Afghan army weren't being funded and were ill equipped, without fuel or ammunition. Even with all that the Afghan army were still putting up a fight. And the U.S just bailed out on them.

Very incompetent administration.

Jeromejnr:


Instead of spewing ignorance. You can go on msnbc and watch a U.S veteran interview on why the Afghan army couldn't fight back.

Summary, he blamed Biden and not the Afghans.

Why?

Because for years, the Afghan army weren't being funded and were ill equipped, without fuel or ammunition. Even with all that the Afghan army were still putting up a fight. And the U.S just bailed out on them.

Very incompetent administration.

Elzazzi:

See money. Na to find way hack into the details of that account and withdraw the money, load am for different sure clients accounts for US. Then you go use sure third accounts collect am after u don give the clients their cut.

thedio:

U can read ur comment over again and blame Joe Biden. U said for years Afghan army were ill equip and I wonder how many years has Biden rule US to acquired such blames