Global media slam US, Biden as a ‘joke’ amid Kabul chaos

The global media are slamming President Biden as a “joke” and an “embarrassment” after the US evacuation of Afghanistan deteriorated into deadly chaos as terrified Afghans clung to military planes in an attempt to flee the Taliban takeover.

Front pages of international newspapers on Tuesday accused a “defiant” Biden of abandoning Afghans following the shocking scenes at Kabul’s international airport a day earlier that left at least seven people dead.

During a national address Monday, Biden rejected blame for chaotic scenes of the bungled withdrawal and the shockingly rapid Taliban conquest..

..The Wall Street Journal said Biden washing his hands of the crisis would “go down as one of the most shameful in history by a Commander in Chief at such a moment of American retreat.”

Various CNN commentators declared it a “political disaster” and “willful abandonment.”

A Washington Post editorial was headlined: “The debacle in Afghanistan is the worst kind: Avoidable.”

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