‘It’s an impossible situation’: Democrats link arms with Biden on Afghanistan and brace for the worst
Most congressional Democrats are backing President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan this year, though many harbor nagging concerns that the gains won over the last 20 years will be erased and the Taliban will retake control after American troops are no longer there.
Biden’s announcement that US troops would leave by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks wasn’t met with a resounding endorsement from Democrats on Capitol Hill, and a handful came out in opposition. But like Biden’s rationale for leaving, many Democrats in Congress say that departing after two decades is simply the best of a long list of bad options and now the key is for Biden’s team to execute its strategy as US troops leave to keep terrorists from regaining a foothold in Afghanistan.
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US efforts to counter China militarily raise the risk of stumbling into a cold war, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee says. We need to embrace containment and deterrence, Rep. Adam Smith said last week.
House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith warned Friday that any notion of building a military force to rival China s should be replaced with a strategy based on deterrence and dialogue in order to avoid war. I m worried as we look at our sort of war planning, Smith during a Brookings Institution-sponsored virtual discussion. It runs the distinct risk of creating conflict where it doesn t need to be. . We need to be really careful about stumbling into a cold war with China.
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NO WARRANTS NEEDED
Speaker Pelosi has ordered the FBI to seize phone records of Republican members of Congress to determine who they were talking to during the protests on January 6th.
No warrants needed! Pelosi runs the show.
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In less than one month President Biden has rescinded Trump’s ban on child separation and built new cages for migrant children. They’re luxurious shipping containers with a nice little window with bars.
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Vice News reported, “LA’s Rich Somehow Got COVID Vaccines Meant for Minority Communities.”
One of Brazil s most notorious politicians was the subject of a criminal complaint filed on Monday by the country s Jewish.
Democrats who now control both the House and Senate want to do everything possible to get Biden’s national security team into place as quickly as possible, overcoming concerns about civilian control of the military.
Biden took office on Wednesday.
Congress has only approved waivers for recently retired nominees twice before. But the last time was only four years ago, when former President Donald Trump’s first defense secretary, retired Marine Corps General Jim Mattis, also needed and received a waiver.