Sen. Lindsey Graham said the U. S. “should” return to Afghanistan, and predicted Monday that the Taliban-controlled country will re-emerge as a global terrorist risk in the future.
Graham the risk posed by a Taliban-led Afghan government to conflicts in other Middle Eastern countries, saying the United States will be forced to interfere after the Taliban, who have “a worldview out of step with fashionable times,” impose “a way of life. about the other Afghan people that I think will make us all sick. “
“We will go back to Afghanistan,” Graham told the BBC. We will have to do it because the risk will be very great. “The hypothetical moves back to past U. S. commitments, adding, “We will return to Afghanistan as we passed backed to Iraq and Syria. “
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Graham, a leading voice within the Republican Party on foreign policy issues, made his comments before the Taliban announced the appointments of their interim government on Tuesday, adding that acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is wanted by the FBI on terrorism charges. did not appoint women or non-Taliban figures to government positions despite last month’s claim that they encouraged the “presence of women in other [government] structures in accordance with Islamic law. “
President Joe Biden argued that the United States has conducted effective counterterrorism operations that oppose terrorist teams in other countries because of the need for a permanent military presence.
“If necessary, we will do the same in Afghanistan,” Biden said Aug. 16. “We have developed a counterterrorism capability on the horizon that will allow us to keep our eyes firmly constant on any direct risks to the United States in the future. region and act temporarily and decisively if necessary.
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Biden has been harshly criticized for meeting his Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline for all U. S. forces, even as the Taliban have made great strides in the region, in the wake of a suicide bombing near Kabul airport that killed thirteen U. S. troops and more than 170. Afghan civilians, several lawmakers, Graham adding, called for Biden’s impeachment, resignation or invocation of the 25th Amendment.
Since July, the United States has airlifted more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan, adding about 5,500 Americans. Biden said between a hundred and two hundred U. S. citizens who have “some goal of leaving,” many of whom have dual citizenship, remain in Afghanistan. .