Louisiana Rep Steve Scalise appeared on “Face The Nation” to talk about Afghanistan and the Biden Admin’s failure to evacuate.
“You and your House colleagues just received a briefing from the Sec of State and Def what did they tell you and are you confident that all U.S. Diplomats are going to be able to get out of Afghanistan safely?” Host Nancy Cordes asked.
“…It’s a very dire situation when you see the United States embassy being evacuated. In fact, you just had President Biden a few days ago saying you wouldn’t see helicopters evacuating the embassy like Saigon, and yet, here we are. This is President Biden’s Saigon moment, and unfortunately, it was very predictable,” Scalise replied
“It seems like many in President Biden’s intelligence community got this devastatingly wrong, and I think a lot of questions will be asked later about why just weeks ago they were saying something completely different than what we’re seeing on the ground today in Afghanistan,” he concluded.
Cordes talked about the Biden Administration blaming Trump and asked if the failure to evacuate safely was inevitable.
“No, in fact, you’re seeing a lot of finger-pointing and blaming … You know, there used to be a saying that the buck stops here on the president’s desk to blame everybody else. But look, President Trump had an agreement in place, that was conditions-based and those conditions were not met in fact many of the conditions included that the Taliban wouldn’t overtake the cities that they have now overtaken under President Biden’s leadership,” Scalise replied.
“This sends a more concerning message to our allies around the world, really sends a concerning message to our enemies around the world who are watching this,” he continued. “China is very involved in what’s happening right now in Afghanistan, as are other adversaries. And so they’re seeing just how easy it was to overtake these areas where the president really said it wouldn’t happen. And it did happen. So it’s an epic failure of President Biden’s foreign policy, and he needs to take ownership of it and take other steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
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This seems to be the Biden Administration’s only move, blame Trump and hope no one notices that he had a far better handle on the situation. The Border and Afghanistan are proof that the Biden Administration doesn’t know what they are doing, and it’s really not Biden’s fault, he’s not the one running the show. It’s the party as a whole, we wouldn’t be in this mess if they hadn’t messed with the election. Even if the election were somehow fair they put forth a dud candidate the guy doesn’t know where he’s going and struggles with tough subjects, like his name.
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