Tell that to the Abandoned: CBS Rips Biden Admin Spinning Afghan Crisis

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 30, 2021
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With the final military planes off the tarmac and out of Afghan airspace, the Biden administration was desperate to try to paint their deadly disaster as some sort of success. Each of the press secretaries and top officials at the White House, State Department, and Pentagon parroted the same talking point that it was the largest airlift in U.S. history. But CBS News popped their bubble Monday as they pointed out how the “hundreds” of Americans they abandoned in the terrorist haven would beg to differ.

During their Special Report break-in for the Pentagon press conference with Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe seemed taken aback by the praise given to the Taliban. “What was most interesting, I thought in listening to General McKenzie is him describing what he called a ‘pragmatic relationship of necessity’ with the Taliban,” he said.

From there, he noted that the “pragmatic relationship” had resulted in hundreds of Americans being abandoned in Taliban-controlled territory and their families would have some serious questions for McKenzie and the rest of the Biden administration.

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