.RepLizCheney to ThisWeekABC: 'What we’re seeing now is actually the opposite of ending war.'
"What we're watching right now in Afghanistan is what happens when America withdraws from the world," Cheney told ABC"This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl."So everybody who has been saying, 'America needs to withdraw, America needs to retreat,' we are getting a devastating, catastrophic real-time lesson in what that means."
Cheney, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said Sunday on"This Week," that the Taliban's rapid takeover did not have to happen, as"everyone was warned." The ramifications of the current situation extend further than just Afghanistan and the war on terror, but globally, Cheney told Karl.MORE: US moving personnel out of its embassy in Kabul: Blinken
"This is not ending the war, what this is doing actually is perpetuating it," Cheney responded."What we're seeing now is a policy that will ensure -- ensure, that we will in fact have to have our children and our grandchildren continuing to fight this war at much higher costs."
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