Everything Liz Cheney Touches Turns To Garbage, A Retrospective
Throughout her entire tenure in the lower chamber, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has yet to lead a winning effort in a defining moment.
By Tristan Justice
August 24, 2021
Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney had a bad weekend.
As turmoil in Afghanistan undermines the aggressively interventionist foreign policy championed by Cheney and the pre-Trump-era Republican Party for decades, the FBI, according to Reuters on Friday, revealed that the bureau had “scant evidence” that the Jan. 6 riot was a coordinated insurrection. Quite the timing.
Cheney went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to capitalize on the chaos overseas, using it to make her case against troop withdrawal in a nation given up to the Taliban once American forces began to come home.
“I don’t think that there’s any question that we have to maintain, we needed to maintain, a presence on the ground,” Cheney said, taking the opportunity to criticize both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump for the decision to leave Afghanistan.
Cheney-style nation-building with no end in sight, however, has left the Taliban ruling more territory than pre-9/11 and now equipped with an estimated $28 billion in American-supplied weaponry. One can only imagine how much more would be in Taliban possession the longer U.S. forces fought an unwinnable battle at Cheney’s demand, dumping supplies in the war-torn nation swept by the radical Islamist group.
In order to stay, Cheney peddled conspiracies last summer on the heels of Trump’s declared withdrawal effort claiming the Russians were placing bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Trump, the story went, remained apathetic to appease his Kremlin allies.
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