Matthew Dowd Calls Out Republicans For Providing A Safe Haven For Terrorists In The US

Former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd deed connected the hypocrisy of Republicans worrying astir coercion successful Afghanistan portion providing a harmless haven for home terrorists.

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Dowd said connected MSNBC’s Deadline: White House:

I mean, yes, the sacrifice that’s been done implicit the 20 years has been commendable, but let’s support successful caput the sacrifice was not lone the men and women who served, including my lad and the others that we person talked to but the sacrifice of the American nationalist to this. This has been $2 trillion that’s been spent connected a failed mission that could person been utilized for people’s wellness attraction here, that could person been utilized to fight terrorism here. 

I heard notation that we’re worried astir a harmless haven for terrorists successful Afghanistan. Well, we person a harmless haven for terrorists successful America close now that has grown implicit the past 10 years and metastasized and resulted successful an insurrection in our U.S. Capitol.

For me, contiguous is, yes, but the sadness is moreover political decisions that person been made over the past 20 years that allowed america to beryllium successful this place where we mislaid thousands of men and women and we mislaid trillions of dollars successful the midst of this and we’re having to leave. I person to accidental convey you, President Biden for being the first successful 4 presidents to make the hard decisions. 

Republican Hypocrites Worry About Afghanistan, But Foster Domestic Terrorism In The US

Dowd was close connected each of his points.  The aforesaid Republicans are fearmongering astir Islamic terrorism, and Afghanistan is hiding the facts from an probe into a home violent onslaught by Donald Trump’s supporters connected the Capitol.

Republicans can’t person it some ways. They can’t beryllium anti-terrorism erstwhile it comes from overseas terrorists but pro-terrorism if it is their voters trying to support a president who mislaid an predetermination successful power.

The GOP wants to unreal that the past 10 years ne'er happened, but they person destroyed their ain credibility connected terrorism.