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Biden Disputes Claim That US Intelligence Agencies Foresee Likely Taliban Takeover


By Patrick Goodenough
| July 8, 2021 | 7:22pm EDT
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah. (Photo by Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. intelligence community has not assessed that the Afghan government will collapse after the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces is complete, President Biden said on Thursday.
“There’s not a conclusion that, in fact, they cannot defeat the Taliban,” he told reporters in the East Room of the White House, in reference to the U.S.- and NATO-trained Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
He did not, however, discount the possibility of a civil war, drawing a distinction between that outcome and one in which the Taliban is victorious. ....

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