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Nexus2

(1,261 posts)
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:32 PM Aug 2021

McCaul: Biden will have 'blood on his hands' over Afghanistan withdrawal




The top Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday said President Biden will have “blood on his hands” over the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan — as Taliban fighters entered Kabul and American troops raced to evacuate staffers from the US Embassy.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said the US troop pullout has been “an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

“This is going to be a stain on this president and his presidency,” McCaul said on CNN’s “State of the Union” as Biden spends the weekend out of the public eye at Camp David.

“And I think he’s going to have blood on his hands from what they did,” the congressman added, referring to the Biden administration.

“They totally blew this one, they completely underestimated the strength of the Taliban.”



More at The New York Post

https://nypost.com/2021/08/15/rep-mccaul-says-afghanistan-withdrawal-has-been-a-disaster/
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BannonsLiver

(16,162 posts)
4. Hmm we'll see
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:38 PM
Aug 2021

Frankly I don’t think Americans care about brown people in far off places as much as Rep. McCaul thinks they do. There are a number of humanitarian crisis across the globe that most people don’t give a shit about.

marble falls

(56,359 posts)
5. Fuck him. He knows better than to pass that garbage around. He wants to be POTUS. He's got ...
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:38 PM
Aug 2021

... the hair for it. And nothing else, besides being the fourth-wealthiest Congressperson.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
6. Not one day...
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:38 PM
Aug 2021

Not one damn minute to spend hoping that everyone is safe. Not one plea that diplomats, citizens, and military personnel are out of harm’s way.

Straight to Biden’s culpability for their own screw ups. These are disgusting people.

BannonsLiver

(16,162 posts)
8. There's no doubt many in the GOP moaning the loudest are delighted by what's happening
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:40 PM
Aug 2021

As you said, not a word was said.

Akoto

(4,261 posts)
9. Many have blood on their hands over going there. Many for staying there.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:43 PM
Aug 2021

I think we'll have the least for leaving. If history has taught anything to us and others before us, Afghanistan's issues can only be resolved by its own people; they have to find the resolve to keep the Taliban out.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
10. As civil wars go, this one has been pretty bloodless. More of a coup than a war.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:44 PM
Aug 2021

It has been a piecemeal prearranged surrender for the most part.

patphil

(6,035 posts)
11. Like McCaul actually gives a shit about the Afghanis.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:53 PM
Aug 2021

He's a true Republican, which is to say that issues like this are only useful as political tools.

mitch96

(13,821 posts)
12. "Biden will have 'blood on his hands'". yeah right.like Ford had blood on his hands after Vietnam.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:56 PM
Aug 2021

"With the collapse of South Vietnam nine months into his presidency, US involvement in the Vietnam War essentially ended."
In a few news cycles no one will even think about it...YMMV
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PSPS

(13,516 posts)
13. LOL. "underestimated the strength of the Taliban"
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:02 PM
Aug 2021

That's to laugh. The Afghan "army" offered no resistance. It doesn't take a force with any "strength" to overcome another force that either just runs away or gleefully and willingly joins your side. But at least Ghani made it out with four of his cars and as much US taxpayer cash as he could cram into his helicopter!

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
14. Do you remember how TFG wouldn't do anything about the Kremlin bounties offered to the Taliban?
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:05 PM
Aug 2021

Well, the Biden/Harris administration just did something about it. That's all I need to know.

elias7

(3,976 posts)
15. Our country has blood on its hands, as do the Afghans
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:13 PM
Aug 2021

Republicans just need to stop pointing fingers when they have as much if not more blood on their hands from Bush II invading to Trump releasing Taliban prisoners. The Afghans clearly have no stomach to self-govern and have been nursed long enough. The absence of Republican response to the Kurdish massacre just a paints them as the hypocrites that they are.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
16. I must be missing something..
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:14 PM
Aug 2021

20 years ago, the media aided and abetted those insisting on war, they lied.. and they've only gotten worse. Now they're dusting off and trotting out the same people to share their 'expertise'. It would be one thing if Afghanistan was a hot topic at some point in the last however many years. Must have been and I missed it. Too many people are too knowledgeable about not only the present, but the past history of Afghanistan. More so than the history of this country, which is only 245 years. My mind will not compute. Guess it's time for a break.

Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
19. Horse pucky
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:40 PM
Aug 2021

It was always going to be this way, no matter when or how we left. The Afghan "army" is a joke. They don't want to fight, they just want to go home, or someplace else.

And McCaul is from Texass. He should be able to recognize horse pucky, whether he's seeing it or spewing it.

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