Though Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, criticized the Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban as “wholly inadequate,” he also didn’t spare Biden.

“I am disappointed that the Biden administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid U.S. withdrawal,” Menendez said.

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Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued a blistering rebuke of the U.S. withdrawal under Biden, calling it a “catastrophe.”

“At minimum, the Biden administration owed our Afghan allies of 20 years a real plan,” Langevin wrote.

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Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a close Biden ally, said that while the U.S. military shouldn’t have stayed “indefinitely,” the drawdown “should have been carefully planned to prevent violence and instability, and to ensure that the hard-fought progress gained over the past two decades—particularly when it comes to Afghan women and girls—would not be lost.”

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who is up for reelection next year, added that “the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan reveals a failure to prepare for a scenario where the Afghan government and military would refuse to fight the Taliban's advances when put to the test.”

Those types of quotes are the reason he cut his vacation short last night. Damage control full court press.

They probably also see that there is no net under their internal polling numbers. That keeps up, Congress Critters are going to look out for themselves in 2022 and tell he and his fkunkies to pound sand.

(08-18-2021 10:58 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Those types of quotes are the reason he cut his vacation short last night. Damage control full court press.

They probably also see that there is no net under their internal polling numbers. That keeps up, Congress Critters are going to look out for themselves in 2022 and tell he and his fkunkies to pound sand.

Biden has FUBAR’d big time. He is an Idiot