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Top US Republican accused Biden of not properly preparing to withdraw troops from Afghanistan

Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee has accused the Biden administration of not having a proper plan for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, placing the blame square in Biden's hands.

'We are going dark in Afghanistan and there's going to be consequences long-term to this. And at the end of the day, when we fully withdraw, the devastation and the killings and women, humanitarian crisis, fleeing across the border into Pakistan, President Biden is going to own these ugly images,' McCaul (R-Texas) told Fox News Sunday.

 

The US left Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away without notifying the base's new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans' departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

 

It has cost the US military 2,312 American lives and $816 billion, according to the Department of Defense. 

 

McCaul said that the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's team warned him the departure of US troops from the country would mark 'the year of the jihad.'

 

'What do they mean by that?' McCaul asked. 'It means all the young males in Pakistan at the madrassas are poised with the Taliban to pour over into Afghanistan and you're going to see a major civil war take place and I don't think, at the end of the day, it's going to look pretty,' McCaul said.   

 

'These [Afghan] interpreters, we told them we'd take care of them and we can't turn our backs and leave them to die,' McCaul said. 'They will be slaughtered by the Taliban. They're targeted by the Taliban. We have to get them out of there. There are about 9,000 of them, and I've been really pleading with the administration to come up with a plan. They just haven't prepared for this at all.'

 

About 650 American soldiers will remain in Afghanistan after the withdrawal but their task will be to guard diplomats at the US Embassy in Kabul.




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