Senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to the 2020 US agreement with the Taliban signed in Doha that promised a complete troop withdrawal. Joe Biden has faced the biggest crisis of his presidency over the withdrawal in Afghanistan, drawing criticism from […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) attempted to school Gen. Mark Milley during the Tuesday hearing about the Afghanistan withdrawal, but it didn’t work out as he may have anticipated. Cotton, who previously served in the U.S. Army, demanded to know why Milley hadn’t resigned after his recommendations were rejected. Milley explained that isn’t the way military […]
Former far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was duped by a deep-fake video of President Joe Biden appearing to fall asleep. During a Facebook live session, Netanyahu mocked it by doing his own imitation of him falling asleep. It’s a rare move by someone who just months ago was the prime minister and is trying to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – – The U.S. State Department has approved a potential agreement covering up to $500 million in military support services for Saudi Arabia, and has sent the agreement to Congress for review, the Pentagon said on Thursday. It was the first major defense agreement for Saudi Arabia sent to Congress since President Joe […]
After years of lying to the American people, conservative columnist Max Boot said Wednesday that Republicans simply can’t stop themselves from continuing to do it. In his column for the Washington Post, Boot argued that Republican officials can’t decide where they stand on President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some wanted him to exit faster. […]
President Donald Trump’s eldest son perpetuated the fake story of executions happening via helicopter in Afghanistan. Donald Trump Jr. created an image using President Joe Biden’s logo with a helicopter dangling a body. He certainly wasn’t the only one to push the debunked story. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) both pushed […]
Republicans attacked President Joe Biden over Afghanistan during a press conference on Tuesday, but they’re having a hard time trying to decide what they are most angry at him about. While the administration got everyone out except a select few, those left behind were Afghani allies that many wanted the U.S. and other countries to […]
The number of people left in Afghanistan who hold American passports is small, but it led Republicans to allege that President Joe Biden has abandoned or stranded them. This has led many Americans to ask: Who would want to stay? What possible reason would someone have to remain in the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan? The reality is […]
Authorities were warning of vehicles filled with explosives readying for another attack on Americans desperately trying to get people out of Afghanistan. But when President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes against ISIS, that vehicle was one of the targets. The New York Times reported Sunday that a drone blew up the SUV hours after Biden told […]
Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday called President Joe Biden “clinically insane” for allowing Afghan refugees to live in the United States. Miller yelled at the current commander-in-chief throughout a Fox News interview after host Maria Bartiromo asked him about “refugees” that are being brought to the United States from Afghanistan. “Your thoughts on […]
On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden’s nationals security advisor engaged in a contentious back and forth with CNN’s Jake Tapper over a report in Politico that the administration had given the Taliban alist of Americans and Afghan allies that was being used as a “kill list.” Pressed by Tapper, Jake Sullivan explained how the administration […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is outraged that Joe Biden withdrew U.S. troops from Afghanistan as Hawley has long demanded. Hawley’s office has demonstrated his anger with a call for Biden to resign from office. But that message was not well received by the editorial board of The Kansas City Star. “Over the past two years, […]
Did the US military give the Taliban the names of Americans and Afghans waiting to be evacuated in order to facilitate the process? The idea, not entirely denied by President Joe Biden, had his opponents screaming in Washington on Friday. The controversy arose from a Thursday report by the respected Politico news website. Pressed by […]
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) lashed out at President Joe Biden during an appearance on Newsmax on Thursday. During a briefing on the terrorist attacks at the Kabul airport that claimed the lives of 13 service members and wounded 15, Biden observed a moment of silence. President Biden observes a moment of silence honoring U.S. service […]
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday hit back at Republicans calling for President Joe Biden’s resignation following fatal bombings outside the airport in Afghanistan. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) demanded Biden resign over the bombings, suspected to have been carried out by ISIS-K. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) demanded so many resignations that Speaker Nancy […]
Democratic strategist James Carville explained that President Joe Biden isn’t the one who clogged the toilet that is Afghanistan. He’s merely the one flushing it. In an earlier panel discussion former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) explained that this was always going to happen because there is no good or easy way to pull out of […]
Taliban leaders on Monday said they will not accept any effort by the Biden administration to extend its August 31 deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, warning that such a move would be certain to “provoke a reaction.” “If the U.S. or U.K. were to seek additional time to continue evacuations—the answer is no,” […]
With the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan for the first time since 2001, President Joe Biden has been drawing strong criticism from both Republicans and fellow Democrats for withdrawing U.S. troops from the country. But Biden was defended from both the left and the right when conservative ABC News pundit Matthew Dowd and liberal […]
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge U.S. President Joe Biden this week to extend the evacuation deadline from Afghanistan, but even if one is agreed, the West will also need the approval of the Taliban, a defence minister said. Johnson will host a virtual meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven […]
As corporate media amplify pro-war voices to cover developing events in Afghanistan, two polls out Sunday showed the U.S. public has little appetite for continuing the 20-year war. A new CBS News/YouGov survey, conducted August 18-20, found that 63% approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan, and just 37% disapprove. […]
Three main officials from former President Donald Trump’s administration are attempting to rewrite history on their role in Afghanistan, wrote CNN fact-checkers Sunday. While there has been a lot of criticism directed at President Joe Biden for the way in which he withdrew American troops from Afghanistan, Daniel Dale explained that Trump’s allies are playing […]
The chaos in Afghanistan as the United States leaves was expected by President Joe Biden, according to an interview with ABC News. But others military experts claim that it wasn’t and that the steps taken ahead of this week laid the groundwork for chaos. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace showed a clip of CNN International from Tuesday […]
In an exclusive interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, President Joe Biden revealed that he always expected the withdrawal from Afghanistan would result in the kind of chaos that was witnessed on television over the past few days. “So you don’t think this could have been handled — this exit could have been handled better in […]
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Senator Marco Rubio urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to block short-form video app TikTok in the United States after China took an ownership stake in a key subsidiary of ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok. The Biden administration in June withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders […]
John Bolton, the former national security adviser, said the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is a big mistake — and there’s no difference between the policies of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Bolton called the abrupt pullout a “strategic mistake” for which both leaders share the blame. “Trump fully supported (withdrawing),” Bolton told […]
While there has been plenty of finger pointing about who deserves the most blame for the disastrous ending to America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan argued on Tuesday that one person that cannot be allowed to escape accountability is former President George W. Bush. During his opening monologue, Hasan said that Bush and […]
A House Democrat unloaded on President Joe Biden’s handling of the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was quickly overtaken by the Taliban and descended into chaos. Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) was among 10 lawmakers who gave the president a letter recommending steps for improving the nation’s stability as troops were pulled from the country, and […]
Watching the swift fall of the Afghan government to the hands of the Taliban this weekend, my gut reaction is one I suspect may be true of most Americans watching this disaster unfold: If twenty years of occupation did diddly squat to set up Afghanistan for success, it’s doubtful that another twenty years was going […]
President Joe Biden will address the nation on the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the White House says, at 3:45 PM ET from the East Room. You can watch his remarks live on news networks or online via The White House here.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reacted to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan over the weekend by threatening to impeach President Joe Biden and by calling for Taliban-style gun rights in the United States. “I have my team right now working on articles of impeachment,” Greene told Real America’s Voice host Steve Bannon on Sunday. “Because […]