AP, Biden Admin "Surprised" by Taliban Order to not Educate Girls

Timothy Birdnow

Will wonders never cease? Who'da thunk it?

AP and Biden administration are surprised that the Taliban broke its promises about Afghan girls' education
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In a piece published Wednesday morning, the news agency (AP) reported that the Taliban had announced that it would not be providing any education opportunities for girls beyond the sixth grade.

The initialreport (which was subsequently edited without bothering to alert readers that any edits had been made), headlined "Taliban nixes girls higher education despite earlier pledges," called the declaration by the terror group that now controls Afghanistan a "surprise decision" from "the hardline leadership of Afghanistan’s new rulers."

This means that nothing has really changed for girls in country since the Taliban took power in mid-August on the heels of the United States' abrupt and much-maligned exit from the South Asian nation — which falls in line with what most serious analysts expected from the Taliban.

However, the AP went on to repeatedly note how "unexpected" the move was.

"The unexpected decision came late on Tuesday as Afghanistan’s education ministry prepared for the new year opening of school, which was expected to herald the return of girls to school," the AP said in its original report.

"Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade," the outlet said in the lede of its edited version of the story.

Like the AP, which called the moved "so sudden," people inside the Biden administration were also caught off guard.

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West tweetedhis "shock and deep disappointment" over the terror group's declaration and ripped the Taliban for betraying its "public commitments" and previous statements that "ALL" off its people have a right to an education.

I am reminded of the words of Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back "he is as clumbsy as he is stupid".

Any fool knew what was coming. The Taliban had been in power before, after all.

These blind idiots are in charge of our foreign policy - and our domestic policy. Yikes!

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