Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), and Iraq war veteran who has also worked in Afghanistan as a conflict analyst, has strongly questioned the intelligence reports coming out of the administration.
‘My takeaway is that they priced this into the decision,’ a former U.S. official said of the Biden administration’s calculations about the possibility of a rapid Taliban takeover.
Hundreds of Afghan forces surrendered Wednesday to the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, the military's most significant single collapse since the withdrawal of U.S. forces triggered a wave of territorial gains for the militants.
Several moderate House Democrats have called for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as possible.
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