Pussy-Hat Psaki Mocked For Saying Taliban Terrorists Consider Its ‘Role in the International Community’ Amid Its Rape and Pillage of Afghanistan

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is an absolute joke. She is quite literally unwatchable. Americans should be very concerned about the stability of the world during the next 3.5 years.

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LOL, yea the Taliban really cares how they’re viewed by the international community. These people live in a clown/dream world.

Perhaps Psaki should go live there and try to convince them to care. I’d be curious as to how much they will heed her advise. Good times. https://t.co/6SzQbHhBm4

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 11, 2021

Jen Psaki is mocked for saying Taliban should consider its ‘role in the international community’ amid its rape and pillage of Afghanistan

• White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended U.S. withdrawal on Wednesday
• She called on the Taliban to ‘make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community’
• The result was a wave of ridicule as commentators said she was out of touch 
• ‘They want to lead the UN, solve climate change and win a Nobel,’ said one wag
• But the jokes came with a more serious point about Washington’s power
• With troops coming home, the administration has fewer options for slowing the Taliban’s rapid advance 

By Daily Mail, August 12, 2021

With the Taliban making rapid advances across Afghanistan, the White House tried a new tack on Wednesday as it defended President Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops: Appeal to the Taliban’s better nature.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki said there was no getting away from the fact that Afghan government forces were struggling, but added: ‘The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community.’

It was part of a strategy designed to nudge them to the negotiating table.

But the immediate impact at home was a wave of ridicule.

‘Psaki won’t be able to tempt them to civility with a seat on the Human Rights Council or expect them to show up to a global warming get-together with Greta Thunberg,’ said Jim Carafano, national security expert at the Heritage Foundation.

‘This is an administration acting like a deer in the headlights on this issue.’

Others joined in on Twitter.

‘They want to lead the UN, solve climate change and win a Nobel,’ wrote author Bruno Macaes.

Her comments came as reports surfaced of Taliban fighters going door-to-door and forcibly marrying girls as young as 12 as they seized swaths of Afghanistan from government forces.

The United Nations reported that more than 1000 civilians have been killed in the past month and the International Committee of the Red Cross says it has treated more than four thousand people since the start of the month.

A slew of commentators said that after ruling the country under the harshest vision of Sharia law, harboring al-Qaeda as Osama bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks and keeping Afghanistan in a perpetual state of war, the Taliban had probably already made up their mind about their role.

But the jokes came with a more serious point: With troops coming home, Washington was losing its leverage.

‘Why fight the Taliban when we can lecture them instead,’ said Elliot Kaufman of the Wall Street Journal.

And Carafano added that it was naive to think the Taliban needed the approval of the international community.

‘First of all, for years they have demonstrated they can get all the funding, support they need from sponsors, illegal activity etcetera, he said.

‘They don’t need the Davos crowd.

‘Further, the Taliban want a close medieval society that they control, and they certainly don’t want Afghans to have access to the outside world.’

Psaki’s comments, he added, reflected how the administration had simply got Afghanistan wrong.

The Taliban have surprised many observers with the pace of their advance since Biden announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces by the end of August.

U.S. officials insist the best hope of a lasting settlement is that government forces can bring the insurgency to a stalemate, so that the Taliban have no option but to take peace talks seriously.

But so far negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government remain stalled.

Instead Taliban fighters have seized district after district, and city after city, triggering a string of warnings that they are committing human rights abuses.

They captured three more provincial capitals and an army base on Wednesday. They now hold about two thirds of the war-torn nation.

The U.N. is warning of an impending civilian catastrophe and says it has reports of possible war crimes.

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