Washington (CNN) Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday placed blame on the Trump administration for the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, saying its 2020 agreement with the Taliban sowed the seeds for the US' turbulent exit from the country.
"Let's keep in mind, (former Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo met with the Taliban. As Donald Trump was publicly saying, 'We have to get out of Afghanistan at all costs. It's not worth it,' Mike Pompeo meets with the Taliban and tries to negotiate something," Kinzinger, who represents Illinois, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on "State of the Union."
"They set this up to fail. But always, of course, Joe Biden could have easily turned this around, and instead used it as the excuse to get out," he added.
Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, told Keilar that "both parties have failed the American people and it can't continue. And it particularly can't continue with just pointing fingers while America is embarrassed in front of the world."
stashtv on August 22nd, 2021 at 15:39 UTC »
Wonder what would have happened if the US didn't release 5k prisoners in 2018, including the current leader of Taliban.
Wonder what would have happened if Trumps Taliban invite to US soil actually did occur.
ptsdtriage on August 22nd, 2021 at 15:11 UTC »
You can go back 20 years(more actually) where the whole thing is set up to fail. If the reason is to keep areas desirable and rack up massive profits for the war industry, then it was a huge success(so in reality mission accomplished)
IveBeenCanceledAgain on August 22nd, 2021 at 14:58 UTC »
The blame goes back to Cheney/Bush. This war failed the day we invaded Iraq.