WHAT WILL HIDIN' BIDEN SAY NOW?

The Biden team "disregarded intelligence assessments that warned of a possible rapid surge of the Taliban* and the group's capture of Kabul, ABC News reported, citing unnamed US intelligence officials.

"US leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban to take everything," an anonymous US intelligence official told ABC News. "No one listened."

LOOKS LIKE CHINA HAS JOE'S NUMBER:

-- Chinese state-run media outlet Global Times reported that "From what happened in Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island's defense will collapse in hours and US military won't come to help." --

OBAMA GOES SILENT AS WELL:

"In the face of America’s enemies, the default position of Obama-Biden foreign policy default is accommodation and appeasement," Carafano wrote. "Unfortunately, the bad guys are not stupid. They had eight years to study the Obama playbook, and they know what to do with it: exploit the deliberate self-weakening."

Obama's spokesperson said the former president had "no further comment" on Afghanistan, pointing to his April remarks praising Biden's decision to withdraw.