.MaddowBlog: The former secretary of state celebrated our withdrawal from Afghanistan a month ago. Now he's trying to complain about the policy he backed.
to the Associated Press about U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The former secretary of state was only too eager to"applaud" the withdrawal of U.S. troops, saying he wants"fewer kids in harm's way."Yesterday, Pompeo nevertheless appeared on Fox News"Weak American leadership always harms American security, so this is in the context of the Biden administration that has basically abandoned the global stage in favor of climate change," Pompeo said.
The rhetoric was obviously lazy and intended for gullible partisans. Pompeo, ahead of a likely national campaign, seems to believe the GOP base will respond favorably to random references to buzz words -- so in a discussion about governmental collapse in Afghanistan, he squeezed in superfluous references to climate change and critical race theory, just for the heck of it.
But what Pompeo didn't want to talk about was his own record -- which includes both praise for Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan and the former cabinet secretary's own role in negotiating the deal with the Taliban in which U.S. forces would exit the country., with a photograph of him standing alongside Mullah Baradar, a Taliban cofounder who's likely to become Afghanistan's new president now that the country's government has collapsed.
The larger political problem isn't limited to the former secretary of state. Throughout much of the Bush/Cheney era, Republicans not only defended the U.S. war in Afghanistan, they also cheered for it to continue. Once Donald Trump rose to Republican power, much of the party followed his lead, denounced foreign interventions, and endorsed our withdrawal.
But now that the Taliban has regained control and our exit from Afghanistan is producing heartbreaking images, GOP voices want to simultaneously condemn Joe Biden; blame the administration for conditions in Afghanistan; maintain alignment with Trump's position; and avoid endorsing an extension of an unpopular and deadly war.: If Biden had kept thousands of U.S.
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