{"id":50549,"date":"2021-08-29T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50549"},"modified":"2021-08-29T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:07:57","slug":"lindsey-graham-goes-after-biden-on-afghanistan-and-gets-literally-everything-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50549","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham Goes After Biden on Afghanistan and Gets Literally Everything Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Biden has been taking considerable heat on his handling of the Afghanistan war winddown. Despite the unprecedented airlift that has evacuated more than 100,000 people in less than a month, and having to navigate the traps that Donald Trump left for him<\/a><\/strong>, the President has still had to weather unduly harsh criticism from politicians and pundits.<\/p>\n

\"Lindsey<\/p>\n

Fox News predictably takes the lead among pundits taking aim at Biden. However, on Sunday morning CBS took a turn with an interview of GOP Senator Lindsey Graham. Ed O’Keefe hosting Face the Nation<\/em> asked Graham what consequences Biden should face for his decisions about leaving Afghanistan. Graham responded with a bizarre question of his own, asking “Whose decision was it to pull all the troops out?”<\/em><\/p>\n

That, of course, was a decision made in what Trump’s own National Security Advisor called a “surrender agreement<\/a><\/strong>“<\/em> between Trump and the Taliban for an unrealistic May 2021 withdrawal. Biden put it off until August 31. But Graham wasn’t through lobbing mud at his former friend:<\/p>\n

“I think he should be facing a lot of consequences here … Joe Biden\u2019s fingerprints are all over this. He\u2019s created the conditions for ISIS to flourish in Afghanistan. They doubled the number of troops available because of the jail break. A terrorist group called the Taliban is now in charge of the country. … He deserves a lot of accountability for this, and I’m sure it will be coming.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s fingerprints are all over this,\u201d Sen. Graham (R-SC) says, arguing the president \u201cdeserves a lot of accountability for this\u201d: \u201cHe\u2019s created the conditions for ISIS to flourish in Afghanistan. They have doubled the number of troops available because of the jail break.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/9dn88YQ8UX<\/a><\/p>\n

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n