Pompeo: Leaving billions of dollars of American weapons in Afghanistan was a big mistake.
From “Fox News”, the foreign minister of the hard-line Trump administration added: “This was a terrible decision by US President Joe Biden.” The fact that that military equipment is now in the hands of our enemies, the Taliban, who are planning to attack America, and that is very bad.
Previously, the Foreign Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives held a meeting regarding the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in the Joe Biden administration.
It is said that the value of military weapons left by the US in Afghanistan reaches 7 billion dollars.
Not only did Biden do something the United States had never done before, he set a “dangerous” and “tragic” precedent by providing military weapons to the Taliban, Pompeo added.
He continued: We had casualties (in leaving Afghanistan), we lost the power of America all over the world.
The Foreign Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives held the first hearing on Wednesday to review US President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw the country’s troops from Afghanistan, and the representatives of the two Democratic and Republican parties presented completely different assessments of this decision.
According to IRNA’s Sputnik Thursday morning report, Michael McCall, the Republican Chairman of the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee, described this decision as the systematic collapse of the federal government and said: What happened in Afghanistan was like the systematic collapse of the federal government at every level and a failure. Stunning in the leadership of the Biden administration.
McCall accused the Biden administration of violating its main commitment to protect the citizens of the United States of America and, referring to the process of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, added: In those circumstances, more than a thousand American citizens were left behind.
On the other hand, Gregory Meeks, a Democratic member of this committee, defended Biden’s decision and said that no common sense would accept that more American men and women would have been sent to this country to fight in Afghanistan.
