Biden faces vast array of GOP attacks after Americans die in Afghanistan
US President Joe Biden is facing a wide array of onslaughts by Republican politicians over the death of 13 American service members and at least 170 others in a terrorist attack during the chaotic Afghanistan evacuation.
Some of the GOP politicians called for the Democrat’s resignation while others suggested he should be impeached over the situation in Afghanistan.
One interesting critic was Rep. Tom Rice from South Carolina, who had also voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.
He asserted that the president should “resign and turn the job over to someone who can handle it.”
'Unfit to commander-in-chief'
There were also those who adopted a harsher tone in calling for Biden’s resignation, such as Rep. Jackie Walorski from in Indiana, who argued that Biden must resign.
“As the president has said repeatedly, the buck stops with him – and I agree. The buck must stop here. President Biden has demonstrated that he is unfit to serve as commander-in-chief, and, therefore, must resign,” Walorski said in a statement.
Some of Biden’s critics went a step further, calling for his impeachment or invoking of the so-called 25th amendment by his cabinet in order to remove him from office.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia and Rep. Madison Cawthorn from North Carolina promoted the idea as both chambers of the US Congress were being controlled by Democrats through a thin majority that could collapse in the 2022 midterm elections.
Ever since the US has acknowledged the embarrassing defeat to Taliban, the GOP has changed its policy of promoting withdrawal of US troops from other countries while pressing Biden for not listening to the military.
“He made the fatally flawed decision to ignore his military personnel, his intelligence people and the Intelligence Committee in the House when they all told him it would be an unrecoverable, unmitigated disaster to abandon Bagram Air Base before all embassy personnel, Americans that wanted to leave, and our Afghan allies were extracted safely before we pulled our troops out,” said Rep. Billy Long.
The US futile and cruel war comes to an end with a defeat for US forces 20 years after invasion of Afghanistan.
The Biden administration, meanwhile, grapples with repercussions of the Taliban takeover of most of the country both inside and outside the United States.
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