Bernard-Henri Lévy strongly criticized the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, which led to the return of the Taliban. "Donald Trump dreamed it, Joe Biden did it”, he denounced.

"An inexplicable and inexcusable failure". Guest of RTL on Monday August 16, Bernard-Henri Lévy denounced the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, which led to the return of the Taliban, 20 years after being ousted from power. 

"The Americans left in an absolutely incomprehensible manner," he continues, "nobody fought a battle, we abandoned them, tied up and down ... We delivered the Afghan women and the Afghan democrats in the hands of Islamic terrorists", he added.

If the withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan was already a wish of Donald Trump, "Joe Biden accelerated the process, Trump had dreamed of it, Biden did it, insists the writer, perhaps out of naivety to have believed in the Doha accords last year (a peace deal between the United States, NATO and the Afghan Taliban where Westerners pledged to withdraw their troops in the spring, in exchange for the Taliban's promise to fight against the influence of Al-Qaeda and not to take back the territories by arms), perhaps also to satisfy voters who were fed up with the so-called endless wars. best allies, they let the rampart that protected us Al-Qaïd yesterday and Daesh today collapse".

For Bernard-Henri Lévy, the Americans are thus "the only culprits" of the situation in Afghanistan after "their incomprehensible decision to withdraw from the country", "washing their hands of what will happen from now on there, in particular for the women stoned in the villages because they dared to put varnish on their fingernails”, he lamented.