how president biden can unilaterally have done this without consulting the allies and without making any exit strategy plan for those thousands of people. it s beyond me. it s a total failure of leadership. as these and other images of desperation emerge from afghanistan during the taliban and taliban takeover, showing terrified afghans clinging to military planes in an attempt to escape the brutal regime. reaction from the international press was swift with headlines including the u.k. s sun calling the president joke biden. the toronto sun s front page read left to die alongside a picture of women and children crying on the tarmac in kabul. the london daily telegraph saying biden defends america s flight. president joe biden remained adamant that his decision to pull u.s. troops out of afghanistan was the right one. afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country.
AUGUST 14 Even though the Emergency hasn’t been extended, the country is still in a state of economic emergency with the epidemic as requiring public health emergency measures continuing to ravage the country with 21,668 cases reported on August 12 representing the highest so far..