Nasrallah: Afghanistan exit shows Israel cannot rely on US - i24NEWS and ILH Staff

 

by i24NEWS and ILH Staff

Hezbollah leader slams US withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling the Taliban takeover the "moral downfall of America."

 

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaks on Aug. 7, 2021, marking 15 years since the 2006 Second Lebanon War | Screenshot: Al-Manar TV via Reuters

 Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah slammed the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in a televised speech Tuesday night carried by official Hezbollah media, saying that the Taliban takeover is the "moral downfall of America."

The leader of the radical Shiite group said that the lesson to be taken from America's hasty retreat from Afghanistan is that the US is not a reliable partner, specifically mentioning Israel.

"Those watching most closely and drawing conclusions from this are the Israelis," the terrorist leader said.

Nasrallah said that US President Joe Biden was willing to "accept a historic failure" to prove a policy shift that the US will in the future not fight wars for other nations, asking rhetorically what the new American foreign policy would mean for Lebanon and its neighbors.

In a speech at the White House, Biden said he stood by the decision to leave the central Asian nation, despite the Islamist insurgents quickly conquering the entire country, including the capital, Kabul.

Biden said that the goal of the Afghanistan invasion almost 20 years ago was to respond to the 9/11 attacks with a narrow focus on counter-terrorism and was "never supposed to be nation-building."

He said that the US would focus on today's threats that go beyond Afghanistan, while threatening a "devastating" response if the Taliban targeted US interests.

"Everybody must consider it and meditate upon it," Nasrallah said, referring to the Taliban's victory. "Those who most need to draw conclusions and wisdom from this are the peoples of this region."

This article was first published by i24NEWS.

 

i24NEWS and ILH Staff 

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/08/19/nasrallah-afghanistan-exit-shows-israel-cannot-rely-on-us/

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