{"id":15972,"date":"2022-08-16T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/sen-graham-slams-bidens-political-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-amid-terror-concerns-it-backfired-on-him\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:20:24","slug":"sen-graham-slams-bidens-political-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-amid-terror-concerns-it-backfired-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15972","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Graham slams Biden&#8217;s &#8216;political&#8217; withdrawal from Afghanistan amid terror concerns: &#8216;It backfired on him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A year after the US pulled its military forces out of Afghanistan, the Biden administration continues to face scrutiny amid growing concerns that the Taliban-controlled nation is becoming an international &#8220;enclave&#8221; for terrorism. <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-C., blasted the Biden White House for the withdrawal, warning that the decision goes &#8220;against good military advice&#8221; and has dangerous repercussions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a political decision by Biden,&#8221; Graham told &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; on Tuesday.  &#8220;I wanted to go out on 9\/11\/2021, 20 years later. I wanted to be the American president&#8230; that ended America&#8217;s longest war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it backfired on him,&#8221; he continued.  &#8220;We didn&#8217;t end the longest war. We started a new one. Al Qaeda camps are springing up, training camps are springing up in Afghanistan as I speak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFGHANISTAN COLLAPSES ONE YEAR LATER: JENNIFER GRIFFIN EXPLAINES HOW THE TALIBAN CAME IN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>      Evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 23.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Isaiah Campbell)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Biden announced earlier this month that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri had been killed in a US drone strike, but despite receiving bipartisan praise, critics fear the resurgence of terrorism in the nation is cause for concern. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the biggest mistakes in the war on terror,&#8221; Graham said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s setting in motion, I can&#8217;t say it enough, another 9\/11-style attack on America because we&#8217;ve left Afghanistan, we&#8217;re repeating history, and it was all avoidable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The buck stops with Joe Biden,&#8221; he continued.  &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody else to blame more than him. He&#8217;s gotten everything wrong for the last 30, 40 years. My biggest fear of him being president is that he&#8217;ll do something so stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden inherited an outline withdrawal from the Trump administration, which was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But in the end, Biden decided to proceed with the elimination of the military &#8220;unconditionally&#8221; by September 11, 2021, despite the pushback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was Biden&#8217;s decision to pull the plug on Afghanistan against good military advice,&#8221; Graham said.  &#8220;There were conditions for our withdrawal. The Afghans, the Taliban did not meet under those conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bailee Hill is an associate editor at Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/sen-graham-rips-biden-political-afghanistan-withdrawal-terror-concerns-backfired-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A year after the US pulled its military forces out of Afghanistan, the Biden administration continues to face scrutiny amid growing concerns that the Taliban-controlled nation is becoming an international &#8220;enclave&#8221; for terrorism. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-C., blasted the Biden White House for the withdrawal, warning that the decision goes &#8220;against good military advice&#8221; and has dangerous repercussions. &#8220;This was a political decision by Biden,&#8221; Graham told &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; on Tuesday. &#8220;I wanted to go out on 9\/11\/2021, 20 years later. I wanted to be the American president&#8230; that ended America&#8217;s longest&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15974,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions\/15974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}