More Nervous about what Biden JUST said about Afghanistan

hey everyone meet kevin here so joe

biden just talked about afghanistan i

want to give you a breakdown of what he

just said so first he started off and

i'll also talk about what he didn't said

and some of my thoughts but anyway he

talked about how we have evacuated 11

000 individuals so far from afghanistan

via charter flights and military

evacuations he says the first priority

for evacuation is any american citizen

or a permanent resident of america the

goal is getting them out as quickly and

safely as possible he's also got a

priority of evacuating citizens and

staff of nato allies so for example

we've had convoys helping the french get

their citizens over to kabul and then

out kabul's airport uh 11 000

individuals have been evacuated within

36 hours joe biden characterizes this as

a heartful and painful transition he

says that this transition would have

happened no matter what at some point

that the images on tv are heartbreaking

for example there have been pictures of

of babies being passed over barbed wired

walls to military members to try to

protect babies it's terrible what you

see but anyway uh joe biden then moves

on to to give a warning he says look a

lot can still go wrong and we're

specifically going to talk about some of

those threats and what could go wrong

uh in just a moment but first

he says what he's doing with folks who

are flying out of kabul uh kabul's

airport is they're flying people to

processing stations

in the gulf central asia and european

locations and then in these processing

centers they're going to conduct

security and background checks because

obviously one of the fears is that well

what if what if there are insurgents

potentially trojan horsing into these

plane rides out to processing centers

and then basically trying to get into

america or europe or whatever

uh and so he

suggests that these processing stations

are going to be able to conduct these

security background checks which i

personally always wondered like how are

you going to do security background

checks it's not like i can run an

experian credit profile and background

profile on on somebody in afghanistan

i'm sure they have their own methods of

background checks but given that entire

government just collapsed

i'm a little skeptical but i think some

skepticism is good to have here so i

have no idea how they do background

checks like this maybe there's like an

international database or whatever but

who knows anyway uh he also mentions

that there will be a civilian airplanes

from uh our airlines supporting this

movement once people are out of kabul

they get to these processing stations

how do we get people from these

processing stations to europe or back to

america or whatever well we've got

civilian commercial airliners providing

support about three to four planes from

each of the major airlines he didn't

mention any specific names he uh he did

make it very clear though and reiterated

that folks are not going directly from

kabul to america that they're going

through these security screenings first

and he says now well then then he goes

on to talk about security at the actual

airport and he finally addresses

something that has been really big in

the media over the last few days and he

talks about the danger of isis k the

afghani affiliate of isis which

obviously we know isis is known for ieds

and provides explosive devices car

bombing suicide bombings these these are

very clear terrorists and and isis is a

group that has already issued threats

against routes leading to the kabul

airport which is very dangerous now in

response to this joe biden kind of made

the suggestion that oh well isis is

enemies of the taliban so so they don't

like each other and i think by that

extension he's trying to send this

implication that well maybe the enemy of

of our enemy is is is somehow

i mean a butcher the way i'm saying this

let me put it this way in simply in

simple terms or simple words he's

basically trying to say hey if the

taliban don't like isis and isis don't

like us

then maybe the taliban and us can work

together now we didn't directly say that

but that was kind of the implication and

i thought that was a little weird i i

think the taliban does not necessarily

have to like us just because we have a

common enemy in isis so i was a little

confused by that

uh because we want to be real the

taliban taking over uh 300 000 service

members worth of m4 carbine rifles uh

tens of thousands of humvees uh hundreds

uh if not thousands of helicopters night

vision goggles dro uh boeing drones i'm

not talking like dji drones i'm talking

about weapons grade drones right

this is a problem okay

all of our military equipment is now in

the hands of the taliban in fact the

taliban are posing for the media wearing

our body armor and holding our rifles

and showing off all their new uniforms

it's incredible it's very very sad but

anyway uh isis k is a big threat uh and

again i've made my position clear about

biden's implication here right i don't

think that's

an appropriate correlation that he's

trying to apply uh but anyway uh isis

big big big threat so we're concerned

media is concerned people are concerned

uh military members are concerned about

these potential or the potential for car

bombings and suicide bombings so big

issues now joe biden in q a did talk

about uh having started to extend the

perimeter around the airport extending

the safe zone around the airport because

we've got the american embassy in kabul

and staff members they're freaking out

saying hey we have no safe passage to

get to the airport and we don't think we

can get out of here we think we're going

to end up dying trying to get out of

here it's it's very devastating some of

the things happening on the ground

now joe biden then goes on

to respond to this question about how do

you respond to people who now disapprove

of you for for potentially mishandling

this withdrawal now saying maybe you're

no longer competent and effective this

was a question from a reporter uh and

and he's respond to this saying to this

with sort of his his usual argument

saying look the decision is we withdraw

now or do we withdraw in five years 10

years 20 years like how long are we

gonna stay there so he says the decision

is actually very basic it's either we

withdraw now or not and he doesn't want

to see any uh sons or daughters get sent

to afghanistan anymore he says it's

expensive it's 150 to 300 million

dollars per day and i'm not sure if he's

extrapolating the earlier costs of the

war where the war was a lot more

expensive but it's worth noting that we

haven't lost a service member in

afghanistan in over 18 months and

obviously a honor big honor to all of

the veterans and service men and women

in our country but this is uh this is

something where we look and we go wait a

minute yeah i mean we had 2500 troops

there folks weren't

actively dying in afghanistan anymore we

had some relative stability and we

didn't have an entire government take

all of our weapons and essentially run

away and hand them uh to an enemy of

ours the taliban now this this is

important because really we look at that

maintenance level we i mean we'll always

well anybody can monday morning

quarterback but we look and go was it

was

would it have been worth leaving a

maintenance level of troops kind of like

a maintenance pill as an analogy i like

to use if you had asthma if you had a

maintenance pill and you keep stability

at least you're not in the hospital i

mean it's obviously too late to go back

and change anything but right now with

what's happening it's kind of like we're

in the hospital it's just a personal

analogy i use for this i also think

we've got a massive failure this is my

personal opinion massive failure of

leadership in afghanistan one of the

reasons why people often wonder why

didn't the afghani police fight why

didn't the afghani armed forces fight

they had all the tools they needed but

they didn't have the leadership the

leadership collapsed the leadership fled

so of course everybody else fled uh it's

very very devastating what's happening

there obviously my heart goes out to

everybody in the region and affected by

this but uh joe biden goes on so i want

to clearly separate my opinion from what

joe biden said joe biden goes on to

respond to a question from a reporter

who asks do you trust the taliban and uh

joe biden responds and says i don't

trust anyone including you which i

didn't think

it was right to make a comparison

between a reporter and the taliban i

think that was really just a way of

diverting the question but okay anyway

uh then joe biden has asked have the

taliban been honoring their commitments

and he says look they're a ragtag force

uh they don't even necessarily have

control over their entire force uh at

the end of the day we just have to stick

to we've got to leave and so that's joe

biden's opinion joe biden does make the

argument that china and russia

loved us being bogged down in

afghanistan

i i

am concerned about that conclusion i

actually kind of think china and russia

are glad that we're gone because it

gives them an opportunity to help fill

the power void or that power vacuum in

the region

so i have a little bit of a different

opinion uh from biden on this and um as

biden was walking out he was asked would

he consider sanctions against the

taliban he said yes but it depends on

circumstances

as he was walking out to the door he was

also asked one more question about isis

uh and and the future of isis and this

isis k threat and he did not answer that

question beyond what he had answered

previously and then uh disappeared so

that was the end of the press briefing

uh thank you so very much for watching

this video we'll obviously stay tuned to

see what happens here thanks so much bye