Statewide Iowa — Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says the U-S withdrawal from Afghanistan is a debacle that has damaged America’s position as a world leader, just like during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Grassley, a Republican, blames President Biden for what he calls “quite a failure for this administration.”
Satellite photos show hundreds of people crowding the Kabul airport tarmac, trying to get out of the country. After seeing Biden’s address from the White House on Monday, Grassley says it’s a “sad commentary” that our Afghan allies of 20 years are being abandoned.
Plans should have been in place, Grassley says, to bring those allies to safety in the U-S or some other country.
Grassley tweeted on Monday: “Pres Biden said in Feb to world ‘America is back’ He’s right- all the way back to 1975 w American allies clinging desperately to US aircraft to escape after our government broke promise to protect them.”
