McConnell calls on Biden to change course in Afghanistan before it's too lateSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged President Joe Biden to reverse course in Afghanistan as the security situation in the country quickly deteriorates.
"Unless President Biden adjusts course quickly, the Taliban is on track to secure a significant military victory," McConnell said in a statement Thursday. "The latest news of a further drawdown at our Embassy and a hasty deployment of military forces seem like preparations for the fall of Kabul. President Biden’s decisions have us hurtling toward an even worse sequel to the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975."
The statement comes as the Taliban has advanced to take control of large swaths of Afghanistan, closing in on the capital of Kabul as U.S. forces near completing their withdrawal from the country.
The Biden administration has pleaded with the Taliban not to attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if they do overtake the city and has now resorted to sending roughly 3,000 troops back into the country in an attempt to provide security for Americans fleeing Kabul............
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