<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden for remarks that he made claiming that he was right about his decision to pull out from Afghanistan — after his own administration admitted in a report that they had made numerous mistakes.</p>
<p>McCaul was asked Sunday on CNN to respond to Biden&#8217;s remarks from a couple weeks ago, when the 80-year-old president claimed that he was &#8220;right&#8221; about Afghanistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you admit there was mistakes during the withdrawal and before?&#8221; a reporter asked Biden.</p>
<p>&#8220;No, no, all the evidence is coming back there, remember what I said about Afghanistan? I said al Qaeda would not be there. I said it wouldn&#8217;t be there,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I said we would get help from the Taliban. What&#8217;s happening now? What&#8217;s going on? Read your press. I was right.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked for his reaction, McCaul said that Biden&#8217;s words were &#8220;devoid of reality.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Jake, it&#8217;s a little bit eerie that a president of the United States would have so — be so disillusioned about what&#8217;s happening on the ground in Afghanistan, the idea that al Qaeda is gone,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;His own secretary of defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff, Milley, have said al Qaeda is on the rise in Afghanistan. He&#8217;s saying they&#8217;re gone. He&#8217;s saying the Taliban are helping us.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What happened right after he withdrew? Zawahiri was harbored by the Haqqani Network, which is al Qaeda, essentially,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, you got Haqqani and the Taliban harboring Zawahiri, al Qaeda, bin Laden&#8217;s number two guy, in Afghanistan right after the fall. And now he&#8217;s saying, I was right. The Taliban is helping us and al Qaeda is gone.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCaul said that it was &#8220;bizarre&#8221; that a president &#8220;would be so devoid of his own foreign policy.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a huge foreign policy blunder,&#8221; he added.</p>
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