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Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States should be ready to face serious consequences of President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
April 30, 2021
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Two former secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, reportedly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday they’re concerned about the potential effects of President Joe Biden’s planned withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Rice and Clinton both expressed concern about protecting American diplomats in the country and the future of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, according to Axios. Rice reportedly told the committee that American troops would eventually have to return if Biden’s withdrawal were carried out.
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I mentioned this in the last thread but it deserves its own post, if only to highlight Biden’s … “evolution” on the usefulness of travel bans.
Restricting travel from India at the moment is a no-brainer given the scale of the crisis and the possibility (although it’s only a possibility) that what’s driving their “apocalyptic” outbreak is a new variant that might be more capable of breaking through vaccinated people’s immunity. Just read this if you haven’t already and you’ll see that, if there’s any debate to be had over this move, it’s why the White House didn’t do it weeks ago instead of waiting until now.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Washington has initiated its largest spending binge in history. In the process, you might assume that the unparalleled spread of the disease would have led to a little rethinking when it came to all the trillions of dollars Congress has given the Pentagon in these years that have in no way made us safer from, or prepared us better to respond to, this predictable threat to American national security.
As it happens, though, even if the rest of us remain in danger from the coronavirus, Congress has done a remarkably good job of vaccinating the Department of Defense and the weapons makers that rely on it financially.