Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Joe Biden should send U.S. troops into Afghanistan to rescue Americans and Afghan allies as the Taliban reasserts total control over the war-torn country.
Speaking in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, on Monday, McConnell said he had learned that as many as 7,000 U.S. troops were about to be in the country to assist with the rapidly deteriorating situation in Kabul. Scenes from the city’s airport showed people clinging to the sides of a U.S. Air Force plane in their desperate attempt to escape Taliban rule.
Noting that he had predicted this outcome, McConnell plainly stated that Biden “owns it.”
