During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussed President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the lack of planning involved.
“Joe Biden’s blaming Donald Trump. This is not the plan you and Donald Trump agreed to,” Hannity said.
“No, this is all on President Biden,” Graham replied. “He took the most dangerous and dishonorable path available. He ignored sound military advice. There is no plan to get U.S. citizens outside of Kabul into Kabul, and once they get to Kabul, there’s no plan to make the Taliban to let them through.”
“But here’s what I take today from the news conference, that we’ve just issued a death sentence to all those who fought with us in Afghanistan,” he continued. “It is clear to me they’re resetting the table here and they’re trying to move the ball and say, we’re going to focus on American citizens and we’re going to leave behind the thousands of Afghans who honorably fought along our side. That’s what they’re saying today.”
“So, two things have happened here. One, the chance of another 9/11 is tenfold because of the way Biden has handled this, and the chance of other people helping us in the future after this debacle is almost zero,” Graham added. “So, Joe Biden and apparently our generals and our secretary of defense are willing to sacrifice all those who helped us because they don’t have the will or determination to get them out.”
As Graham pointed out, there currently “isn’t a plan for evacuating those who are outside of Kabul, due to the Taliban checkpoints surrounding the capital,” New York Magazine reported.
People who have tried to travel to the Kabul airport for evacuation have been beaten and sometimes killed. The Wall Street Journal reported, “as of Tuesday afternoon many thousands of Afghans who had been employed by Western embassies and nongovernment organizations in Kabul remained stranded and unable to reach Hamid Karzai International Airport for evacuation flights as the Taliban erected checkpoints at airport entrances, whipping and beating Afghans who attempted to cross.”
