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A number of Republican lawmakers suggested removing US President Joe Biden from his post after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"At a time when the United States is facing its most amazing and humiliating defeat in decades, President Biden's abject failure to implement a strategic withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan has returned it to the hands of the same extremists who ruled it," Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said in a tweet on Twitter. After the catastrophic events in Afghanistan, we must face a serious question, which is whether Biden is capable of carrying out his duties, or is it time to exercise the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
In a second statement, Scott, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, called for the immediate launch of a bipartisan and bicameral investigation into President Biden's complete failure to successfully withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, pointing out that this failure Unacceptable, especially after 20 years of war.
In turn, the US Republican Representative, Liz Cheney, indicated that the US president ignored the recommendations of military leaders regarding ways to address the situation in Afghanistan, saying that "Biden ignored the advice of his military leaders... the damage to our national security is great... and we must do what is necessary to preserve our safety," stressing What happened was a "miserable failure".
Cheney indicated that she was not surprised by the chaos seen in Afghanistan, describing the scenes circulating on social media as "devastating and heartbreaking."
"I used to think that having 2,500 to 3,500 US troops on the ground was meant to fight terrorism and help us make sure that the Taliban wouldn't be able to take over and that they wouldn't be able to continue to provide safe havens to al Qaeda," Cheney said.
The developments of events in Afghanistan accelerated with the Taliban entering the capital, Kabul yesterday, and taking control of most government institutions, amid chaos in the city's airport as a result of thousands of people crowding and rushing to the airport runway to leave the country.