McConnell demands Biden commit to sending more troops back to Afghanistan

[left-of-center2012]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging President Biden to commit to sending more troops back into Afghanistan past the Aug. 31 deadline the administration imposed on withdrawing troops.

McConnell called Biden’s Afghanistan policy “reckless” and said that if the administration does not move to send additional troops to back up Afghanistan forces, the U.S. embassy in Kabul could fall to insurgent groups.

“Here’s what should happen now. President Biden should immediately commit to providing more support to Afghan forces, starting with close air support beyond August 31st. Without it, al Qaeda and the Taliban may celebrate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by burning down our Embassy in Kabul,” McConnell said in a statement Thursday.

“Unless President Biden adjusts course quickly, the Taliban is on track to secure a significant military victory. The latest news of a further drawdown at our Embassy and a hasty deployment of military forces seem like preparations for the fall of Kabul. President Biden’s decisions have us hurtling toward an even worse sequel to the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975,” McConnell said.

(President Biden is fulfilling the agreement negotiated by Trump for the withdrawal.
Apparently it was OK with McConnel when Trump was President.)

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/567681-mcconnell-demands-biden-recommit-to-adding-more-troops-back-to

[Retrograde]

1. Is mitch volunteering?

Does he have a plan for what the US's goals are here? If not, the Turtleman can just STFU

[Grokenstein]

2. Or else what, Turncoat Turtle?

Or else you'll obstruct everything you can?

[dalton99a]

3. Fucking hypocrite

[crickets]

10. "President Biden's decisions" indeed.

Getting out of Afghanistan was going to be a mess regardless of who is president or how the withdrawal was planned. Mitch is just an opportunist slinging mud.

[lpbk2713]

4. Yeah, go ahead and send someone else's kids back over there.

The defense contractors could use the money.

[onethatcares]

5. has the turtle

advanced a bi partisan congressional resolution to send the troops?

and another bi partisan congressional resolution explaining how it would be paid for?

I thought only congress has the power to flex military power excluding the AUMF for the Iraq invasion.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Actually, McConnell didn't want Trump pulling out, either....

Which begs the question: Why is he so hellbent on the US staying there? I suspect that the answer is, "Just follow the money." Perhaps he and his pal, Eric Prince, should just finance their own private army out of their own pockets, and take over, since he loves it there so much.

We should never have gone in there in the first place, and those of us who were opposed to it back then warned these assholes that this kind of thing was going to be inevitable, only to be accused of hating America in response. Fuck these people.

[spanone]

7. STFU mitch

[mitch96]

8. Yup, McTurtle's handlers at the military industrial complex are gonna loose a bucket load of money

When the final pullout occurs... It's all about the money... They have had a great ride till now. ......... I wonder how long before then next "forever" war happens??
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[left-of-center2012]

9. Looking at Iran

Betcha