you would turn a war into a welfare program and you would turn your military into an ngo, that would him elliott ever but involved. you would spend trillion dollars truman s of dollars to do this but you would get nothing in return from that money apart frm dramatically increasing corruptd opium. you would run afghanistan so badly with such unbelievable stupidity and overbearing arrogance that by the end, much of the population would yearn for the return of brutal religious extremists. then when it was finally time to go, you would ignore the relevant details of the withdrawal. if you wouldn t plan the exit, you would just hope for the best buried what could go wrong in a country controlled by the taliban? when crowds of desperate people showed up, as they notably would, begging to be evacuated, you big certain to give preference to the foreign nationals, the ones who might hate you and prefer sharia law to democracy. they would get the first seats on the plane. as for your
full troop withdraw from afghanistan, flying in the face of our allies who want us to stay longer until all friendly forces are safely out of the country. in a group of gop lawmakers rippinging into president biden over that decision. it will be a stain on this presidency, and particularly after the decision made today and what we heard today, he will have blood on his hands. our allies no longer trust us, and our enemies no longer fear us. everything about this situation that we re in now i wills joe biden s fault. it s reckless for our country and it s disastrous taking place. it s his responsibility. this is not politics. nobody wants to be standing up in front of you talking about this. this is a failure. and talk about gas lighting the entire country. the white house says americans are not being stranded in kabul, but take a listen to this account. we are stranded. we can t get to the airport. when we try to get to the airport we get beaten up or are afraid for
afghanistan at the mercy of the murderous taliban. it is beyond infuriating that biden began the week on vacatio at the taliban took over the country great we didn t hear from joe until monday. at that point, he was too scare to take questions. biden s abc interview raised more questions about him in his team s decision-making skills. in fact, it wasn t until late this morning that the president s team apparently realized that maybe he shouldn head to his delaware beach hous today, he ll reportedly go tomorrow instead. he wants to stay in the white house during a crisis anyway. after hearing his disaster of a news conference today we can confidently conclude that the biden white house in cabinet ar members of the gang they can t shoot or talk straight. they are a basket case teeming with incompetence. after a week of mixed messages, they still aren t even on the same page. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point? with al qaeda gone? could. we know that al
three u.s. senators announced today that they have tested positive john hickenlooper of colorado, independent angus king of maine and roger wicker of mississippi all say they are fully vaccinated. that comes as parts of the country, particularly the south, are being pummelled by the delta variant. alabama has no, zero icu beds left. in fact, it s in negative territory. with some patients being treated on gurr. alabama s republican cover declared a state of emergency last week as her state s hospitals face this nightmare scenario, but still, she stood her ground on saying there will be no new statewide mandates. her fellow republicans have been actively declaring war. not on the virus, but on virus protections. like in neighboring georgia where hospitals are also running out of icu beds. governor brian kemp is banning local governments from requiring businesses to adopt mask mandates and in texas, where health officials warn the current surge could be worse than anything the s
sources, victims were either new overnight the white house tells cnn that 1800 people were flown out of kabul, the airport the last 24 hours on military transports. that s almost twice the number from the day before, but it s nowhere close to where they need to be or where the president himself suggested the u.s. should be. there are at least 10,000 americans still in afghanistan and tens of thousands who worked with the u.s. the u.s. embassy in kabul warns it cannot ensure safe passage to the airport. and in a new interview, president biden says u.s. troops will remain in afghanistan until all americans are out, even if that means staying beyond the august 31st deadline for withdrawal. however, he did not make the same commitment to afghan allies to afghans who helped americans in the war. these scenes of desperation and chaos are unfolding across afghanistan. the taliban imposing a curfew over the entire eastern city of khost today after protests broke out there. violen