BY A.J. KAUFMAN |P J MEDIA
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With the
Taliban-imposed Aug. 31 deadline for the United States
to pull out of Afghanistan, Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday night that the real deadline to leave
actually is much sooner.
“That’s not
even the deadline. That’s the deadline for the last plane to take off; the
true deadline is probably Thursday, Friday, Saturday,” Rubio told Sean
Hannity on Fox News. “But that’s what you get with a White House
that’s incompetent and a president who seems, quite frankly, oblivious to all
of this.”
Hannity
pressed, “We are going to leave our fellow Americans behind?”
The Floridian
explained the logistical challenges and added, “This is not Noah’s ark where
you put everyone on there and get them out at one time.”
Rubio
elaborated that the deadline for America and its allies to get out is misguided
and should have only been a goal, not a set date.
The Senate
Intelligence Committee vice chair and senior Senate Foreign Relations Committee
member claimed the situation at Hamid Karzai Airport is “total, complete
chaos, unsanitary conditions and rapidly declining.”
Referring to
the botched withdrawal and evacuation, Rubio claimed, “When history looks back
at this moment, this will be covered as one of the worst catastrophes in
American foreign policy history.”
Rubio, who’s
long believed the current tragedies would occur if President Joe Biden
irresponsibly pulled troops out, also targeted much-maligned Joint Chiefs
Chair General Mark Milley.
“This is
what you get when a president is completely out of touch with reality, and then
we have a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who spends his time worrying
about White Rage. Don’t
worry about White Rage, General Milley, worry about the Taliban and the
Americans who are going to be killed by them because of your botched efforts,”
Rubio explained.
Later in the
show, Sen. Lindsey Graham called for Biden to be impeached, saying, “He should
be impeached; this is a dereliction of duty by the commander-in-chief.
