The U.S. is showing no sign of stepping up airstrikes in Afghanistan despite accelerating Taliban gains. The U.S. says only that it will continue airstrikes as feasible until the Biden administration's final withdrawal date three weeks from now.
“When we look back, it’s going to come down to leadership and what leadership was demonstrated, or not,” by Afghans, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a news conference. “It’s their country to defend now. It’s their struggle.”
Senior officials from the White House National Security Council, State Department and Defense Department were in close contact with U.S. embassy officials in Kabul on Sunday assessing the broader impact of the fall of Kunduz, the largest and most significant Taliban takeover, according to a senior administration official.
After routing the al-Qaida plotters of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. in the war’s first years, the U.S. and its NATO allies stayed on for long years afterward, partly in hopes of fostering a Kabul-based government and military that was capable of withstanding the Taliban once Western forces finally withdrew.President Joe Biden has said he is honoring a withdrawal deal that President Donald Trump struck with the Taliban. But Biden has made clear he also is determined to extract U.S.
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