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Afghanistan Burns While Joe Biden Takes a Vacation!

Afghanistan Burns While Joe-Biden-Takes-Vacation

&NewLine;<p>Afghanistan is being consumed in death and flames&comma; and where is our illustrious Commander-in-Chief&quest; On freaking vacation&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Republican members of Congress have been very critical of President Biden – and rightfully so &&num;8212&semi; for spending time at the Camp David presidential retreat instead of the White House as the Taliban fought to finalize a takeover of Afghanistan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Why is Joe Biden on vacation&quest;&&num;8221&semi; asked Rep&period; Jim Jordan&comma; R-Ohio&comma; on &&num;8220&semi;Sunday Morning Futures&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t think he&&num;8217&semi;s taken one question from the press this entire weekend&comma; so this is a frightening situation&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It was confirmed on Sunday morning that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country as Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan&&num;8217&semi;s capital&comma; Kabul&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Rep&period; Lauren Boebert&comma; R-Colo&period;&comma; accused Biden of &&num;8220&semi;dereliction of duty&period;&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;Rep&period; Jim Banks&comma; R-Ind&period;&comma; and Rep&period; Elise Stefanik&comma; R-N&period;Y&period;&comma; also echoed the criticism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Camp David has historically been used both for work and relaxation by U&period;S&period; presidents and is fully equipped with secure video-conferencing technology&period; White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that Biden &&num;8220&semi;likes Camp David&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a place to be outside&comma; spend time with family&comma; and certainly has beautiful&comma; beautiful scenery there&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Psaki continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Two House Democrats also took to Twitter to blast the Biden administration for how they handled the Afghanistan withdrawal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Rep&period; Dean Phillips of Minnesota said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;As a Gold Star son of the Vietnam War listening to the White House briefing on the Afghanistan War withdrawal&comma; my heart particularly aches for the thousands of Gold Star families of an eerily similar and painful episode forty-six years later&comma;&&num;8221&semi; referring to Saigon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s no way to hide it&period; The situation in Afghanistan is another shame on this admin&period; Withdrawal was never going to be easy&comma; but it didn&&num;8217&semi;t need to come to this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Rep&period; Vicente Gonzalez of Texas tweeted&period; &&num;8220&semi;The US must do everything in its power to help our partners &amp&semi; allies to safety &amp&semi; protect our national security&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The White House tweeted out a picture Saturday of Biden sitting down at Camp David and taking notes during a video conference with his national security team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And on Sunday&comma; a White House official told Fox News that Biden has &&num;8220&semi;spoken to members of his National Security team on the situation in Afghanistan and will continue to receive updates and be briefed throughout the day&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Jordan – one of Biden’s harshest critics &&num;8212&semi; said he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t believe the United States has seen something this &&num;8220&semi;crazy&&num;8221&semi; in foreign policy since the Vietnam War&comma; referring to the infamous finale at the Saigon embassy&comma; where Americans were evacuated from a rooftop by helicopter in 1975&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s hope we can protect American lives&period; But this would not happen&period; This would not happen if President Trump was in the White House&period; We know that we would not be treated the way we are from our adversaries&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Jordan said&period; &&num;8220&semi;We would not have what took place up in Anchorage&comma; Alaska&comma; a few months ago&comma; where Secretary Blinken was treated the way he was by his Chinese counterpart&period; That just would not happen when you project strength and confidence from the White House&period; But unfortunately&comma; we don&&num;8217&semi;t have that today&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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