They had 300,000 trained soldiers. They had an Air Force. The Taliban don't have a Air Force.

“Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country,” he said, accusing the military of laying down their arms after 2 decades of U.S. training and hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment and resources. ($2 trillion) “If anything, the developments of the past week reinforce that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.”

He directed his ire at Afghanistan’s political leaders, saying he urged them to engage in real diplomacy. “This advice was flatly refused,” he said.

President Biden vowed again to rescue thousands of Afghans who had helped Americans during the two-decade conflict, but the fate of many who remained in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan was uncertain Monday. And thousands of Afghans with dual American citizenship remained unaccounted for amid reports of revenge attacks by the Taliban as they seized control.