Posted on 08/14/2021 4:19:05 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that the U.S. should start conducting airstrikes against the Taliban and provide support to Afghan forces to stop the insurgent group from capturing the Afghan capital amid the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
McConnell said in a statement that “it is not too late to prevent the Taliban from overrunning Kabul. The Administration should move quickly to hammer Taliban advances with air strikes, provide critical support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) defending the capital, and prevent the seemingly imminent fall of the city.”
“If they fail to do so, the security threat to the United States will assuredly grow and the humanitarian cost to innocent Afghans will be catastrophic,” the Kentucky senator warned.
McConnell also mentioned that he had spoken with the Afghanistan ambassador to the U.S., saying they had “an urgent conversation” regarding “the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and the unfolding humanitarian crisis."
Republicans have in recent days ramped up their criticism of President Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops as conditions in Afghanistan have been rapidly deteriorating amid the Taliban’s recent gains.
The Taliban now control 14 of the country’s 34 provincial capitals, according to The Associated Press. Several major cities, including Kandahar and Herat, were captured this week.
Biden defended his decision to withdraw troops last month, rejecting the notion that a Taliban takeover in Afghanistan was “inevitable.”
“The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army. They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability,” he said during a speech in the White House East Room. “There's going to be no circumstances where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the United States from Afghanistan.”
The president made a similar sentiment on Tuesday, pointing to the amount of money that the U.S. has spent on Afghanistan and the number of Afghan forces the U.S. trained.
"We spent over $1 trillion over 20 years. We trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 Afghan forces," Biden said at a news conference. "And Afghan leaders have to come together. We lost thousands, we lost to death and injury, thousands of American personnel. They’ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation."
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged the Taliban to halt their offensive and “negotiate in good faith.”
“The message from the international community to those on the warpath must be clear: seizing power through military force is a losing proposition. That can only lead to prolonged civil war or to the complete isolation of Afghanistan,” Guterres said.
“I call on the Taliban to immediately halt the offensive and to negotiate in good faith in the interest of Afghanistan and its people,” he continued.
So, what I hear you saying, is that we should expect to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the United States from Afghanistan.
McConnell has made Kentucky and the entire US the
puppet of CHINA. Just like he and his sister in law
were paid for.
McConnell is just following Orders, just like
with his sedition and endless lies to Americans.
Thank you General McConnell. Such a jerk.
McCain has returned.
Probably not, because leaked memos are telling journalists not to promote any “Saigonesque” imagery that would cause panic or harm.
I don’t care one iota about what McConnell “calls for”
He is the enemy in my book after the Infrastructure Bill
GIANT CAVE.
Mitch, you are a Eunich, worthless in every way.
Time to repeal the 17th Amendment
When your enemy (Biden) is digging a hole, let him. Biden is CIC. He owns this entirely. He set the date for withdrawal and is responsible for its execution.
Real Americans would like to drop McConnell out a bomb bay door and into the hands of the Tally Wackers.
Xiden has THREATENED to nuke US cities
in which he has ALREADY quartered diseases.
He owns that.
Should we let him continue???
...or should 200 million very angry
Americans with dead and maimed in their families
arise, and end this farce,
and make the horse (US) thieves and G-O-F Bioweapons
makers/releasers obtain a bit of Justice.
The military has proved over and over again they can’t train squat to fight unless we are there with them, Vietnam, Iraq prime examples. White extremists according to Miley is most likely the reason and he is trying to rectify that problem with videos and a apology tour from the 4 star white race.
What you said...
Rather, “the enemy has us surrounded: they can’t escape now.” The concentration of Taliban troops now likely provides an unprecedented opportunity to wipe out more of them via airpower in one day or so then perhaps the last 20 years, at little risk to allied soldiers. A final but climatic exit.
EXACTLY
Not only has the Taliban taken over the entire country, they have defacto taken over Kabul.
And murdered thousands. It will be a blood bath.
Nice job Biden.
We are at their mercy for the evacuation. A land convoy evacuation is impossible. It's by air out of Kabul International, or thousands of our evacuees will be trapped and taken prisoner or worse.
It's a total clusterf#ck, the worst military retreat in history.
Nope. See 17.
Who’s Turtle’s security advisor, Xerxes?
The South Vietnamese fought on almost two years after the US military left. They were defeated after the Dem-controlled Congress cut off all military assistance and the North Vietnamese violated the Paris Peace Accords by invading without suffering any consequences.
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