Biden’s national security advisor says the US could give the Taliban CASH AID even as they hold hold mock FUNERALS for American, British and NATO forces and celebrate with gunfire in the streets of Kabul after 20 years of war
- National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the US could send economic aid to the Taliban
- Taliban ‘victory’ parades took place in Afghanistan today after the last US troops left the country overnight
- Coffins draped in the US, UK, French and NATO flags were paraded through the streets by the Islamists
- Thousands of people waving Taliban flags turned out to watch, after fireworks were let off in Kabul overnight
- Meanwhile Taliban leaders paraded at Kabul airport alongside troops decked out head to toe in western gear
- Taliban commander boasted the airfield will now be ‘a base for jihad for all Muslims’
- Up to 200 American citizens who want to leave were left behind along with thousands of Afghans
- US national security advisor says evacuation ‘has shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission’
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We have Americans stranded in countries all the time’: Pentagon defends leaving hundreds of citizens in Kabul and insists the Taliban poses NO threat with US weapons
- Pentagon spokesman John Kirby did a media blitz Tuesday morning to defend the US government’s actions in withdrawing from Afghanistan Monday
- He said the State Department can handle negotiating for US citizens’ return because Americans get ‘stranded in countries all the time’ and need assistance
- He also blamed stranded Americans for waiting until the last minute after the last US jets left the country, despite Biden promising to stay until all were evacuated
- Kirby also shrugged off concerns about US weapons left behind in Afghanistan
- But he did admit that there is a ‘lethality component’ to some of what was left
- The last US military jet departed Kabul on Monday afternoon eastern time
- Blinken said Monday that 100 to 200 Americans who wanted to flee are left