Rep. Auchincloss: Biden Was Given a ‘Series of Bad Options’ in Afghanistan by His Predecessors
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AUCHINCLOSS: "One of the scenarios mapped out to this president was a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. This was conceivable when he made the decision. But he made the tough and high-integrity call to not pass this failed war on to yet another president. He was given a series of bad options from his predecessors and he looked at the situation on the ground and said, 'What do I get for another six months, for another year, another 10, 20 years?' The United States will win every battle that we fight with the Taliban and still lose the war, because to bring peace and justice to Afghanistan, we need political statesmanship and leadership, and yet the Afghan leaders were not even able to even provide rations and bullets to their front-line troops at their moment of reckoning."