Rep. Jeff Van der Rohe calls on the president Joe Biden, vice-president Kamala Harris And the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi After the Taliban insurgents attacked the capital Kabul on Sunday, they resigned after the government withdrew from Afghanistan.
Taliban fighters quickly seized control of Afghanistan and forced the evacuation of the US Embassy in Kabul. After Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was forced to flee.
New Jersey Republicans called this quick takeover “one of the darkest and most embarrassing days our country has experienced, and it is also a huge embarrassment for the Biden administration.” Fox News‘ Sunday night in the U.S..
Van der Rohe said to the host: “In this government, this is one failure after another.” Trey Gaudí“I can’t believe I would say that. It is indeed time for the president to resign. It is time for the vice president to resign. It is time for the president to resign. Senate The president and speaker resigned.We need new people, even new people Democratic Party, I hope that is moderate. “
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In response to the escalating crisis, Biden increased the number of troops deployed to assist in the “orderly and safe drawdown” to 5,000 on Saturday, and then to 6,000 on Sunday.
As the Afghan government moved quickly across the country within 10 days, the Afghan government fell into the hands of the Taliban, and Republicans stepped up their criticism of the Biden administration. Just four days ago, US defense officials also predicted that it would take one to three months for the Taliban army to isolate and take over Kabul.
The Senate Minority Leader said: “The Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the frantic evacuation of Americans and vulnerable Afghans from Kabul, is a shameful failure of the American leadership.” Mickey McConnell Written in a statement issued after the U.S. completed the evacuation of embassy staff earlier today.
House of Representatives Liz Cheney The Governor of Wyoming said, “What we see in Afghanistan now is what happens when the United States withdraws from the world” ABCof this weekAnd added that Biden and the former president Donald Trump Both parties are responsible for the decision to withdraw troops.
Biden and his predecessor blamed each other on Saturday for the collapse of Afghanistan. Trump criticized Biden for not “following his plan to leave.” Biden accused the former government of signing an agreement with the Taliban that put them “in the best interests.” The status of “in the military” since 2001. “
Biden announced the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in April, and Trump praised it as “a very good and positive thing.”
In the face of growing backlash, Biden reiterated his long-term reasons for quitting. “In another year, or five years, American armies If the Afghan army can’t or won’t control its own country, its existence will have no effect,” he said. “The endless presence of the United States in another country’s civil war is unacceptable to me. “
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