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Afghanistan: US Republicans accuse Biden of "botched" withdrawal

2021-08-16T02:05:01.287Z


The security situation in the Hindu Kush is escalating - and the Republican Party in the USA is using this for its domestic political purposes. Several representatives sharply attacked President Joe Biden.


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US President Joe Biden

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It didn't take long for the escalation in Afghanistan to become an issue in US domestic politics.

President Joe Biden is caught in the crossfire of leading Republicans after the Taliban conquest.

And some of these find clear words.

The "botched withdrawal" from Afghanistan and the "hectic evacuation" of Americans and Afghan aid workers was a "shameful failure of the American leadership," said the Republican minority leader in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, on Sunday (local time).

The US would have had the opportunity to "avoid this catastrophe."

The prominent Republican Liz Cheney said: "What we are currently experiencing in Afghanistan is what happens when America withdraws from the world." The then President Donald Trump and Biden would be responsible for this, she told ABC.

US allies would wonder if they could even count on the United States, Cheney said.

She is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

It is only a matter of time before the terrorist group Al-Qaeda reappears in Afghanistan, wrote Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Twitter.

"President Biden does not seem to be aware of the terrorist threat posed by a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan." Biden had repeatedly and vehemently defended the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

Another year or five more years of US military presence would make no difference, Biden had only emphasized on Saturday.

USA sends more soldiers to Kabul

The US had recently decided to send more units to the crisis country.

The aim is solely to secure the airport in Kabul to enable the departure of US and allied personnel from Afghanistan.

As it became known on Sunday evening (local time), there are said to be around a thousand other military personnel from the 82nd Airborne Division.

It was only on Saturday that Biden ordered a reinforcement of 1,000 soldiers.

The dispatch of 3,000 soldiers was announced last week.

"In the next 48 hours we will have increased our security presence to almost 6,000 soldiers, whose job is solely to support these efforts," said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense.

jok / dpa

Source: spiegel

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