Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Sunday that America is more likely to face another 9/11-type attack thanks to President Biden’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan last year.
Pompeo, who served under former President Donald Trump, criticized Biden over how the US withdrew from the war-torn country, arguing the debacle has put the Taliban in complete control there and made Americans less safe as a result.
“We are more likely to be attacked like New York City was 20 some years ago, we’re more likely to be attacked from Afghanistan today than we were just one year ago,” Pompeo told host John Catsimatidis on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show Sunday morning.
Pompeo, who was the director of the CIA before taking over the State Department in 2018, said that the exit embarrassed the country and even emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine earlier this year.
“We are now one year from what everybody saw with their own eyes: Americans left behind. Thirteen Americans dead. The Afghan people clinging to American aircraft as we turned tail and ran out of that country. To have had that debacle embarrass our country on the world stage, made us less safe, convinced Putin that he could begin his aggressive conduct in Ukraine,” Pompeo said.
August of 2021, US forces left Afghanistan after being in the country since 2001. During the withdrawal, 13 US service members were killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport.
I love the fact that everything the idiot president has done has been a disaster, the country, foreign affairs and his crack smoking son.
But lets face it, the republicans are idiots too.