Based in afghanistan has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Splinter Group is also an enemy of the taliban. President biden addressed the attacks a short time ago. To those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this. We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. And as i note that the State Department has now updated the number of dead to 13 and flags have been lowered outside of the White House. We should note that as well. The State Department had warned americans yesterday to stay away from the airport because of threats like this. President biden himself spoke about it earlier this week. The longer We Stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a Terrorist Group known as isisk, an Isis Affiliate in afghanistan, which is a sworn enemy of the taliban as well, every day were on the ground is another day we know that isisk is seeking to target the Airport And Attack both u. S. And allie
There s no sense they re competent to do that, but that s what they bought and now they got it. there s a couple of issues, joy. there s the counterterrorism issue and the future of afghanistan with the taliban. the one thing the president has been quite clear on for months in addition to getting out is this idea that you repeated today that is there is a counterterrorism challenge inside afghanistan, that we can deal with those over the horizon capacity. the capacity to take a missile strike. the capacity to take a drone strike. the capacity to conduct a special operation. in the same way that we do in many other countries where there have been counterterrorism but we don t have a base with several thousand american troops. that s frankly where a lot of the so-called war on terror has been moving anyway in recent years, where you don t have large numbers of u.s. ground troops but you instead have this case of the u.s. taking stand-off strikes at individual targets. in a lot of those
Mccaskill, because it is not surprising. the same old war hawks are back again wanting more war, war, war. they see an opening here in the tragedy that s befallen 13 marines. here s kevin mccarthy. horrific. yadda yadda yadda, saying that the speaker of the house, who he thinks he wants to be one day, must bring congress back before august 31st so we can be briefed thoroughly by the administration and prohibit the withdrawal. prohibit the withdrawal of our troops until every american is safely out. this guy is no military strategic genius because leaving more troops would mean they d attract more attacks from isis. what do you make that the speaker of the house is demanding to come back to force troops to stay in afghanistan but had no interest in investigating the attack on our own capitol january 6th? you know, kevin mccarthy is so frickin hypocritical.
But the neo isolationist far right got in his ear as well as the self-loathing far left and told him you need to end this endless war. we are facing real enemies there. mcmaster did point a finger at the three most recent administrations, which would include his former boss, but somehow left off george w. bush. he also forgot to mention one more architect of our present mess, himself. in 2017 the washington post reported that mcmaster played a key role in getting trump to commit more troops to afghanistan, presenting him with a black and white snapshot from 1972 of afghan women in mini skirts walking through kabul to show him that western norms had existed there before and could return. with me now, former senator claire mccaskill of missouri and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and author of the news letter this land. thank you for being here. i will start with you, claire
Osama bin laden. the founder of isis is bigger by many, many times al addingy than osama bin laden. osama bin laden had one hit and it was a bad one. but these other two guys were monsters. can you imagine a democratic president coming out and saying bin laden had one hit but these other guys, these people are monsters. that is the person that kevin and the others are dutifully following and do anything for, including getting covid. your thoughts, claire, i ll give you the last word. it is, let me say again, the hypocrisy of the people who are piling on joe biden for trying to end this war is stunning. and i ve got to say in all the oversight i did in afghanistan as a member of the armed services committee, one theme emerged over and over and over again. it was greed, it was contractors, it was impractical use of money. i mean, joy, we went so far as