Democrats and Former Obama-Biden Administration Officials Say Joe Biden Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

Democrats and Former Obama-Biden Administration Officials Say Joe Biden Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

The horror unfolding in Afghanistan is a direct result of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ incompetence. This failure calls Joe Biden’s credentials as Commander in Chief into question.​​​

August 16, 2021
Democrats and Former Obama-Biden Administration Officials Say Joe Biden Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

Despite Joe Biden’s assurance that there would be “no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy” in Afghanistan, the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal has been an unmitigated disaster. Even members of his own party and former Obama-Biden administration officials are calling the president out for his failure.

NBC News: “As Americans were airlifted from the embassy to board military flights out of the Kabul airport, Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., compared the scenes to the fall of Saigon, where Americans were rescued by helicopter off the embassy rooftop in 1975. Biden insisted last week there would be no comparison between Kabul and Saigon.

“‘It does feel like the fall of Saigon today, I’m not going to lie,’ said Dingell Sunday morning.”

Politico: “The whole episode hit home for Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) a Vietnamese refugee whose parents escaped the war-torn country by boat when she was an infant. Murphy said her heart breaks for those battling to leave Afghanistan and expressed disappointment in how the U.S. was departing.

“‘I also worked at the Department of Defense, I know what a planned drawdown looks like. I know what an orderly departure looks like. I’m disappointed that this is the way in which we are withdrawing,’ Murphy said in an interview Sunday.”

Politico: “That sentiment was echoed by Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq. ‘The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat,’ Moulton said in a lengthy statement Sunday. ‘For months, I have been calling on the Administration to evacuate our allies immediately,’ he continued. ‘The fact that, at this hour, we have not even secured the civilian half of the Kabul airport is testament to our moral and operational failure.’”

NBC News: “Former CIA director David Petraeus, who oversaw forces in Afghanistan during the Obama administration, called the Taliban takeover ‘catastrophic’ and an ‘enormous national security setback,’ warning things will get much worse unless the U.S. changes course.”

Fox News: “A former Obama-era ambassador to Afghanistan [Ryan Crocker] says he has ‘grave questions’ about President Biden’s ‘ability to lead’ America as the nation’s commander in chief following the stunning collapse of Afghanistan.”

Bottom line: The horror unfolding in Afghanistan is a direct result of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ incompetence. This failure calls Joe Biden’s credentials as Commander in Chief into question.​​​