McConnell: ‘Terrorists Around The World Are Cheering’ After Biden’s Disastrous Withdrawal

Mitch McConnell

During a Fox News interview on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed President Biden for his decision to entirely withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying the disastrous withdrawal will end up costing more than if the U.S. had just maintained operations there. “Let’s talk about the decision to withdraw itself,” McConnell said. “We were spending about 1 percent of the Pentagon budget every year to keep the lid on in Afghanistan. We hadn’t lost a single American soldier in combat in the last year. It was working.” “It was working, because we went there, we went there to

Biden Admin Will Respond To Taliban Threats With ‘Strongly Worded Statement’

Joe Biden
Joe Biden

During a CNN interview on Tuesday, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced that the Biden administration would be responding to threats from the Taliban with a “strongly worded press statement.” “The U.N. Secretary-General is saying that they’re already getting – and I’m quoting him now – ‘chilling reports of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of Afghanistan,’” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said. “What specifically are you learning about those threats? “We are hearing from people in Afghanistan that they are getting threats from the Taliban,” Thomas-Greenfield responded. “And we have expressed, in no uncertain terms,

White House Refuses To Say If Troops Will Remain In Afghanistan Till All Americans Are Evacuated

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During Tuesday’s press conference, both White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan refused to say if U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan until the evacuation of Americans was complete. A reporter asked Sullivan if evacuations were not complete by August 31st and “there are Americans and Afghan allies who remain there, will U.S. troops stay until everyone is out or will they leave?” “So I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals,” Sullivan responded. “What I’m going to do is stay focused on the task at hand, which is getting as many people out as rapidly

Biden Admin Admits It Does Not Know How Many Americans Are Still In Afghanistan

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On Tuesday, the Biden administration admitted it did not know how many Americans were still in Afghanistan as the Taliban has seized control of the country. In a CNN interview, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that there are “certainly thousands of Americans … we don’t have an exact count.” “Best guess … between five and ten thousand that are near Kabul,” Kirby continued. “There was a message put out by the State Department today advising those Americans about how to queue up and how to get to the airport so that now that security’s better, they don’t need to

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