Former President Trump is not taking his retirement laying down. He has been in full attack mode, criticizing the Biden Administration over the issue of Afghanistan. Indeed, there was a viral photo that shows a feeble Joe Biden watching as the Taliban has taken over the country. One can only feel sorry for all that the Afghan are likely going to go through, especially considering that now the U.S. is seeking to withdraw from the country.
“It’s not that we left Afghanistan. It’s the grossly incompetent way we left!” he declared in his statement last Monday.
“Afghanistan is the most embarrassing military outcome in the history of the United States. It didn’t have to be that way!” Trump said in another statement.
“Can anyone even imagine taking out our Military before evacuating civilians and others who have been good to our Country and who should be allowed to seek refuge? In addition, these people left topflight and highly sophisticated equipment. Who can believe such incompetence? Under my Administration, all civilians and equipment would have been removed,” Trump said in another statement.
However, if you think that former President Trump is the only person who is unhappy with how Biden has handled Afghanistan and the Afghan people then you would be sadly mistaken.
A recent survey was conducted that found that a strong majority of likely general election voters are disapproving of President Biden’s handling of the U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. Namely, there were 59.5% of these individuals that were designated as “strongly disapprove”. Add in the fact that an additional 9.8% were in the “disapprove” category, and you have a voting bloc of nearly 70% who disapprove of the job that Biden has done with the Afghan people!
GOP lawmakers everywhere have leveled criticism against the Biden Administration for their sloppy handling of the Afghan situation.
“Biden, the White House & their shameless hype men at MSNBC continue attacking the straw man of leaving #Afghanistan,” Tweeted Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio. “It isn’t about deciding to leave, it’s about the incompetent way they executed it.”
GOP Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah said that the “ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan” could only be blamed on the president and the Pentagon.
“But the ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan was entirely avoidable and is a blatant failure of leadership – both by President Biden and the Pentagon,” Stewart said in a statement. “Allowing weapons, helicopters, ammunition, and classified documents to fall into the hands of the Taliban is inexcusable. Not being able to defend our own embassy is a disgrace. Leaving the Afghani soldiers and interpreters who fought beside us to fend for themselves is incomprehensible. Competent military leadership could have withdrawn our forces in an orderly fashion, creating benchmarks and priorities that would have prevented the current situation. Neither the President nor the Pentagon did any of that.”
Either way, it’s a total mess, and it doesn’t bide well for the Biden Administration (no pun intended).