Title : Reporters Tear Into State Department And Pentagon Spin On President Biden's Afghan Pullout
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Reporters Tear Into State Department And Pentagon Spin On President Biden's Afghan Pullout
* 'This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation,' State Dept. spox Ned Price said of the decision to bring in the military to evacuate embassy personnel
* 'A year ago ... the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban were not speaking to one another,' Price said touting diplomacy in the region
* 'How are you going to avoid a parallel with the fall of Saigon?' one reporter asked Pentagon press secretary John Kirby State Department spokesman
Ned Price was hounded by reporters on Thursday as he tried to explain the Biden administration's decision to evacuate much of its embassy personnel, at the same time touting 'diplomacy' advances with the Taliban.
Neither State nor Defense nor the White House have any briefings scheduled for Friday, one day after the announcement.
'This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation,' Price assured reporters numerous times throughout his briefing. 'What this is is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint.'
'It appears to be a preparation for a full evacuation,' one reporter said. 'That's not true,' the spokesman responded.
'I respect you and we all know you have a job to do,' CBS reporter Christina Ruffini said to Price.
'But there is no way you can sit there and say that the people of Afghanistan watching the Taliban take over provinces, watching their country crumble are now going to watch American diplomats get on military planes and leave the country that that sends a signal that the U.S. is with them in the long haul diplomatically.'
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WNU Editor: It was quite a sight to see yesterday when the spokesmen for the State Department and the Pentagon appeared separately to explain what the U.S. was going to do in Afghanistan (see above videos). To say it was a disastrous performance is an understatement.
It is also telling that neither State nor Defense nor the White House have any briefings scheduled for Friday, and President Biden or Vice-President Harris are nowhere to be seen.
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