Talking about the last call between Joe Biden and Ashraf Ghani, accessed by press agency Reuters, the White House said that it won’t get into private diplomatic conversations or leaked transcripts of phone calls but what has been reported as Biden’s last advice to Ashraf Ghani remained Biden’s public advice for Afghanistan leaders, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
What the President conveyed publicly, and positively privately also , repeatedly, to Afghan leaders — as did our national security officials — is that it’s important that the leaders in Afghanistan do exactly that: lead and show the country that they’re able to still — the fight against the Taliban; that they need the desire for the Afghan National Security Forces to continue that fight whilst our US forces leave,” the press secretary said.
Reuters reported that the last call between Biden and Ashraf Ghani was on July 23– just 23 days before the autumn of Kabul during which none of the leaders seemed to have any inkling about the approaching takeover of the country by the Taliban. therein call, Biden promised Ghani close air support and advised him to mobilise Afghan leaders to vary the perception of the planet that the Taliban were winning.
To this advice, Ashraf Ghani informed Biden that the country was facing a full-scale invasion and therefore the Taliban weren’t alone as over 10 to fifteen ,000 Pakistani terrorists were already inside the country at that point .
The White House said that Biden has been consistently conveying this to the Afghan leadership that they were required to steer . “The President has consistently conveyed — and that i just noted an example — publicly that the Afghan leadership, at the time, needed to try to to exactly that: lead. They needed to return together during a cohesive manner. They needed to be united. they have to only show the country and therefore the Afghan people they were getting to fight and that they are getting to lead through this transition, whilst US forces left. that’s entirely according to what he has said publicly throughout,” the press secretary said.
Confirming that it’s true that the autumn of Kabul wasn’t anticipated, Psaki said, “what I can reiterate for you is that we’ve stated repeatedly that nobody anticipated — the overwhelming majority , I should say — there may are individuals and agencies, so I don’t want to eliminate that option — but our national security team and nobody in Congress or, i might say, most of the people call at the general public anticipated that the Taliban would be ready to take over the country as quickly as they did or that the Afghan National Security Forces would fold as quickly as they did.”