'This is an ill-conceived, disjointed, half-assed effort to get American citizens and those who fought for us out of Afghanistan,' Graham said.
"People are together in a big wad right outside the airport. How easy would it be for an ISIS suicide bomber to blow up our troops and all the people trying to get out?" he continued.for evacuating people from Afghanistan on Saturday, after learning of potential threats from the Islamic State.
Graham said that the U.S. needs to"push the perimeter back at the airport" and cancel the August 31 deadline Biden has set for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan,"because we can't get our people out." "The bottom line, this is an ill-conceived, disjointed, half-assed effort to get American citizens and those who fought for us out of Afghanistan," Graham said.
Senator Lindsey Graham talks to a reporter as he walks to a vote at the U.S. Capitol on July 21 in Washington, D.C. On Saturday evening he blasted Biden's approach to Afghanistan and said he was worried about a terrorist attack there from the Islamic State.He added that Biden is"putting all these people in harm's way" and has"no idea what he's doing."
"He's been wrong about everything for 40 years and this plan that we're trying to execute is going to get a lot of Americans killed and those who fought along our side because ISIS is going to take advantage of the chaos at the airport. We need to fix this and we need to fix it quick," Graham said.
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