parents are selling their children for food. tom cotton is senator from arkansas who served in afghanistan. he is on armed services judiciary and intelligence committees he is joining us now, senator, it looks as if history will be a tough judge on u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. trey, history will judge joe biden s debacle and his reckless ill planned disorganized withdrawal from afghanistan in. this is what you expect from a depraved gang of medieval savages, the taliban. and brutal revisals for
negotiating with the united states of america, there have other negative consequences, 60,000 afghans who helped this country were left. rights denyed and violated then the children, estimates as many as one million afghan children are in imminent threat of death if help does not come. the taliban claims there is no proof. that is different from claiming that nothing has happened. it is hard to find proof in a closed society run by fanatics. the facts keep getting in the way. a volleyball player on women s national team was beheaded and her team forced to flee, afghan
that is a long time. presidents appoint women and men who will be in office long after the president is gone, and likely in office long after the senators themselves are gone. some federal judges have served for over half a century. so is it really asking too much that senators be allowed to meet with the nominees before voting on them? judges not only search for life but they make important decisions such as passing senate and criminal cases and adjudicating the constitutionality of laws and regulations, it is an important job. that is why u.s. senators have a role to play in the selection of the women and men. official judges include trial judges who serve in one state and circuit court of appeals judges who issue orders and opinions that impact multiple states, south carolina is in the same judicial circuit with north carolina, virginia,
be accounting about to be thinking about the theme people who are not sitting at the table. so many people have lost so many people. but beyond the pandemic we have people who are not sitting at that table. the thing that i want to share, it s all right to miss them, it is all right to be sad about them. so many of us say, don t feel sad. it is okay, i have a different view. i say, it s okay to be sad. it is okay to miss people. it is okay to talk about them. and cry about them. it is great to bring them to the holidays it is great to have kind of memories or rituals to have them there with, so many people have an anniversary around holidays for those lost, bring those family members with you it is super important. other thing to say, many
someone that works with american government, that is more, the threat that afghan and the taliban poses to americans, there are hundreds of americans still in afghanistan. joe biden assured us they got almost everyone out, maybe just a hundred left, well, we have gotten out 500 since then, and there are thousands more. my contrast we brought out tens of thousands of afghans with no particular connection to america or our troops are. there is a threat that afghanistan poses as a safe haven. joe biden assured us he would have over the hospitalization strike capabilities, it should be called over the rainbow strike. we have no eyes in afghanistan. we have the most limited ability to understand what is going on, we should expect brutal terrorist