* Former officials condemned Biden's rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan
* The Taliban took a tenth provincial capital on Thursday as they continue push
* David Sedney, a Pentagon official under Obama, said: 'The lesson here is that nobody should trust the United States'
* Afghan government officials are furious they are being abandoned after fighting for 20 years
* And former U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker agreed: 'This is a handover to the Taliban'
A string of former Obama-era officials on Thursday added their voices to criticism that President Biden has turned his back on the Afghan government, undermining U.S. standing in the world and turning Afghanistan over to the Taliban.
Insurgents have advanced rapidly across the country since Biden announced the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and now control about two thirds of its territory.
The result is urgent appeals from Afghan officials for more to help who feel they have been abandoned after 20 years on the front line of America's war on terror.
David Sedney, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia under President Barack Obama, said the U.S. withdrawal sent a message to allies.
'The lesson here is that nobody should trust the United States, whether it’s Ukraine or Vietnam or Taiwan or any country,' he told Bloomberg.
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WNU Editor: The press are now starting to pile on .... Biden deserves blame for the debacle in Afghanistan (Peter Bergen, CNN). More here .... This Afghan rout is entirely on Joe Biden (New York Post Editorial Board) .
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