WASHINGTON — For more than two months, Mitch McConnell has excoriated President Joe Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan as a “hasty abandonment” that will “threaten the U.S. homeland” and lead to a “likely catastrophe.”
An accelerated exit that will now pull a significant number of U.S. troops out by this weekend’s July Fourth holiday could determine the prescience of the Senate Minority Leader’s dire warnings sooner than expected.
Whereas military officials have said that al-Qaida could regroup to target the U.S. in two years, McConnell conveyed just last week that he suspects “this threat will come much more quickly.”
