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Trump Had a Plan for Afghanistan. Biden-Harris ‘Blew It Up’: Congressman

August 19, 2024

As the Taliban paraded captured U.S. military equipment through the streets of its capital city on the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a congressman had a horrifying revelation. “I saw some of the vehicles that were built in my district being paraded across that field today,” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) told “Washington Watch” last Thursday.

Although most Americans supported the cessation of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the Biden-Harris administration’s execution resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers during a suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and left an unknown number of American civilians stranded behind enemy lines.

The Biden-Harris administration responded by saying it had executed a plan originally negotiated by President Donald Trump — but that’s a half-truth, Walberg, a former pastor, told his former congressional colleague Jody Hice, who guest hosted the program. “President Trump had planned for it, had negotiated the means by which the Taliban would respect our withdrawal,” including a provision “that we would keep forces there, that we would hold the airfield and that we would have eyes on the ground still in that region.”

“That all changed with the election of the present president, who immediately after being sworn into office, showed a weakness and it blew up full tilt during the Afghan withdrawal,” Walberg explained.

Kamala Harris praised President Joe Biden’s reaction to the military deaths at the time, saying he had “shown great emotion in expressing sadness about some of the images we have seen.” Although President Biden attended the dignified transfer of the troops, cameras caught him looking at his watch. The White House spin room later claimed Biden was glancing at a rosary he wears on his wrist.

As Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris seeks to reinvent herself, she will not be able to distance herself from that debacle. Harris publicly stated she was “the last person in the room” with Joe Biden when he formulated his disastrous withdrawal plans. “She was part of all the major decisions, they say. And there she was supporting this decision,” said Hice, who served as a congressman from Georgia.

The Biden-Harris administration has further decimated the U.S. military by instituting woke policies that saw branches of service repeatedly miss their recruitment goals, even after those goals were lowered.

“Kamala Harris, whom the media were deriding just three weeks ago, is beginning this honeymoon with the potential of becoming commander-in-chief of a weakened force — not because of our troops, but because of their leadership,” said Walberg. “What that says to Hamas is, why should they negotiate? What that says to Iran is, why should they stop their nuclear development?”

“We are the ‘big Satan’ in the eyes of the radical Muslims. And that begins with Iran, who indeed will foster what goes on with the Taliban and others against the United States,” he said.

Walberg said the final shape of U.S. policies, foreign or domestic, may have little to do with either Biden or Harris, implying it would endure throughout Democratic administrations. “I don’t believe that she or President Joe Biden were running this country or have been running this country. There’s a cabal behind them with an initiative to change this country from the inside out. And that also responds to the whole globalist desire.”

Walberg said plans to submerge the United States into a global order, erasing centuries of American exceptionalism, “will not work” and will not maintain global stability. “America has to be there at the top of the heap. We’re the only nation that has the power and the potential and the moral clarity — if we use it to define what takes place in the world.”

America must jettison its policy of seeking to “build nations, but rather demonstrate what a true constitutional democracy and freedom is all about,” he insisted.

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.