Nearly 70% of Americans said ending the war in Afghanistan was the right thing to do, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
"We leave behind exactly what we went in to solve 20 years ago, and I fear for the future and continuing the war on terror," McConnell said on Sunday.
"There is clearly no plan. There has been no plan. Their plan has basically been happy talk," Sasse said of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal strategy.
The explosive attack took place outside the airport, where people have been crowding for days trying to get out of the country.
The Afghan army has faced criticism for collapsing in the face of a Taliban offensive. Here's what an Afghan commander had to say about the loss.
Some have used the speed of the Afghan government's fall to argue that the US withdrawal was a mistake, but just the opposite is true.
"We are going out as needed and helping Americans," a Pentagon spokesman said, adding that the US military is using a "variety of methods" to do so.
US special-operations forces were the first into Afghanistan in 2001, and now some are wondering what it was all for.
Biden's FiveThirtyEight average approval declined to 49.3%, while his disapproval rating sits at 44.2%.
As the Taliban approached Kabul, Ghani fled the country by plane on Sunday and insurgents quickly took control of the presidential palace.
Biden pushed back on Trump's criticism, alleging that the former president had "left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
Biden pushed back on Trump's criticism, alleging that the former president had "left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
The Taliban took over the government's last northern stronghold of Mazar-e-Sharif in "barely an hour," according to The New York Times.
Expect the military officials who commanded the war in Afghanistan to invoke "cutting and running." Let's talk about why they failed.
"Don't believe what you're told by the generals ... or people in the administration saying we're never going to do this again," John Sopko said Thursday.
Rumsfeld served as defense secretary under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush and was widely seen as the architect of the Iraq War.
US troops are still fighting in Afghanistan nearly 20 years after first arriving in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The US mission in Afghanistan has gradually expanded over those two decades, but Afghans need to determine their country’s future, according to William Ruger, who was nominated by […]
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