Mon Aug 16, 2021 – 3:04 pm EDTMon Aug 16, 2021 – 3:26 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C., (LifeSiteNews) — After drawing intense bipartisan criticism for failing to address the nation amid a turbulent withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, President Biden is now set to give a speech on the situation Monday afternoon.
The news comes after reports indicated Biden would give an address “in the next few days.”
Many have decried Biden’s silence on the rapidly escalating situation, leading to calls for the president to resign.
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan triggered a rapid descent into chaos in the region over the weekend, with radical Islamic Taliban insurgents seizing power of the capital city, Kabul, as Americans abandoned the embassy and thousands of Afghan citizens desperately attempted to flee the country.
After repeated assurances from the Biden Administration that a takeover by the Taliban was by no means imminent, this weekend saw a swift toppling of the Afghan leadership supported by the U.S. government as the Taliban moved with lightning speed to take control.
In humiliating images reminiscent of the hasty evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel from the American embassy in Saigon,
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