Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned during an interview on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan could easily wind up becoming more costly to clean up than it would have been for the U.S. to have maintained operations at the rate they were going before Biden decided to pullout.
“We were spending about 1 percent of the Pentagon budget every year to keep the lid on in Afghanistan. We hadn’t lost a single American soldier in combat in the last year. It was working,” McConnell said. “It was working, because we went there, we went there to prevent Al Qaeda from being back in full operational mode under the Taliban and to sort of keep the lid on.”
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