'Weakness begets war': Pompeo says Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal puts US at greater risk of terror

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'Weakness begets war': Pompeo says Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal puts US at greater risk of terror attacks as Taliban seizes Kandahar and Lashkar Gar and president sends in 3,000 troops to evacuate embassy

    Mike Pompeo, Trump's secretary of state, appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Thursday night
    Said he was deeply concerned at the rapid Taliban takeover of vast swathes of the country and insisted Trump would have prevented it
    Pompeo said that Joe Biden's approach was 'at best naive and at worst ignorant' because it has allowed the Taliban to make rapid gains
    He said it was an indication of the wider problem of American weakness and failure to gain the respect of nations and actors around the world
    Pompeo spoke as the Taliban continued their rampage across the country by capturing the nation's second largest city Kandahar, the third largest Herat and the capital of Helmand Lashkar Gar
    The Pentagon is sending troops back into Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the US embassy
    Diplomats are weighing how soon they could have to totally evacuate the US embassy in Kabul, where some 4,000 people are employed
    Taliban fighters are going door-to-door and forcing young women in captured areas into sex slavery and executing Afghan forces who surrender

By Harriet Alexander and Morgan Phillips For Dailymail.Com

Published: 00:38 EDT, 13 August 2021 | Updated: 09:01 EDT, 13 August 2021

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Donald Trump's secretary of state Mike Pompeo has condemned the White House for their weak tactics in Afghanistan, saying that the country would not be falling to the Taliban if Trump was in charge.

Pompeo warned on Thursday night that the country was turning into 'a breeding ground' for future terror attacks weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the Biden administration's response has been 'at best naive and at worst ignorant'.

He spoke as the Taliban continued their rampage across the country on Thursday by capturing the nation's second largest city Kandahar and the third biggest Herat. On Friday they stormed into Lashkar Gar, the capital of Helmand Province.

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[Free Vulcan]

I said it when he was inaugurated - more than being surrounded by ideological nutjobs, the Biden admin's real problem was WEAKNESS, especially on the int'l front.

Now we are seeing that come back to the kitchen.

Russia, China, and the Taliban are licking their chops.

[Fishrrman]

Pompeo is wrong on this one.

What is happening in Afghanistan now would have happened had we stayed there 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 years more.

The moment we left, the fundamentalists would conquer the place and take over.

We were there 19.5 years too long already, as it is.