Australia’s former ambassador to Israel has hit out at US President Joe Biden’s response to the tragic events unfolding in Afghanistan.
Mr Biden faces increasing criticism over the disorganised pullout of American troops after 20 years of US-led military intervention, defending the withdrawal while blaming Afghan forces whom he said were “not willing to fight for themselves”.
people fell to their death mid-air after climbing onto a US Air Force plane in desperate bid to escap“It’s chaotic in Kabul. It’s a highly uncertain, highly unstable, difficult environment,” Mr Sharma said. But he heaped criticism on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government and insisted he had no regrets and emphasised US troops could not defend a nation whose leaders “gave up and fled”.
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