Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed President Joe Biden’s move to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan after nearly two decades. McConnell called Biden’s move a “reckless rush for exits” and a “global embarrassment.”
"President Biden and his team are desperate to duck hard questions about Afghanistan,” McConnell said on Tuesday. “But the American people deserve answers. They deserve to understand the risks of this trajectory and how the commander in chief plans to keep us safe against a terrorist enemy that his own senior advisers admit will be allowed to regroup thanks to his actions.”
McConnell says on the floor that Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is “becoming a global embarrassment.”
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 13, 2021
“Afghanistan is unraveling,” McConnell says.
McConnell: President Biden and his team are desperate to duck hard questions about Afghanistan. Ending our presence in Afghanistan will not end the terrorists’ war against us. Sadly, the opposite may be true.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 13, 2021
The Biden Administration is desperate to duck hard questions about its retreat from Afghanistan. The American people deserve to know how the President plans to keep them safe against a terrorist enemy that his own senior advisors admit will now be allowed to regroup. pic.twitter.com/ZjJRPY8xo4
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) July 13, 2021
The president predicted recently that all troops will be gone by August. As it stands now, 90 percent are withdrawn.
When I announced our drawdown in April, I said we would be out of Afghanistan by September. Our military mission in Afghanistan will in fact conclude on August 31st. And the drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way, prioritizing the safety of our troops as they depart. pic.twitter.com/7U8Fb47gsd
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 9, 2021
We will never forget those who gave the last full measure of devotion for our country in Afghanistan – nor those whose lives have been immeasurably altered by wounds sustained in service.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 8, 2021
We are ending America’s longest war, but we will always honor those who served in it.