Meghan McCainis blasting PresidentJoe Bidenfollowing theU.S. military exit from Afghanistan.
In anInstagram poston Thursday, the conservative pundit and daughter of the late Sen.John McCainsaid she has “been physically ill” and filled with “pure rage and anger” since the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
While Biden has said ending the war was the necessary choice after 20 years of fruitless fighting — and billions in cost and tens of thousands of dead — McCain, a family friend, argued the way it unfolded was “one of the greatest foreign policy catastrophes of my lifetime.”
She insisted that “the shame, dishonor and embarrassment the Biden administration has brought to our country will take generations to undo. Not to mention our standing in the world and the cruel reality that the likelihood of another significant domestic terror attack has now risen to the highest levels since 9/11 and will usher in Isis 3.0.”
Meghan McCain.Theo Wargo/Getty
McCain added that, while she “could say so much more,” she wanted to encourage her followers to reach out to veterans and their loved ones because “everyone I know is struggling.”
“May God have mercy for what we have done to these people abandoning them. Biden is unfit to lead,” McCain wrote, adding, “There should be an emergency congressional hearing before more innocent lives are lost. My heart is broken, this tragedy will absolutely haunt our country.”
In an apparent rebuke to what some other conservatives and political figures have said, including PresidentDonald Trump, McCain wrote: “Also — every single Afghan refugee fleeing must be granted a safe haven in America!”
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The withdrawal from Afghanistan in recent days was the final stage of a long-planned exit.
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He described scenes of panic, confusion and escape as “gut-wrenching.”
“The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated,” Biden said.
“If anything,” he said, “the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan was the right decision.”
He continued: “I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”
source: people.com
