Lindsey Graham Calls Joe Biden 'Most Incompetent President of My Lifetime'
By: Brendan Cole (MSN)
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Senator Lindsey Graham said President Joe Biden has "blood on his hands" for the way he handled the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan.
© Getty Senator Lindsey Graham (R) has criticized President Joe Biden in a TV interview.
In an interview with Fox News ahead of Veterans Day, the South Carolina Republican disparaged Biden's foreign policy credentials and said that his friendship with the president had been permanently damaged over the Afghan exit.
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Biden was criticized for his decision to withdraw the U.S. military after the collapse of the American-backed government in Kabul as the Taliban took back control of the country.
Chaotic scenes around Kabul's airport in August and the death of 13 U.S. service members in a terrorist attack added to scrutiny of Biden, who has vigorously defended his decision to end America's longest war.
But Graham let his feelings be known in a Fox segment that started with news that the new U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, is visiting Pakistan this week to meet the Taliban foreign minister and diplomats from Russia and China.
Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it was inevitable that the U.S. withdrawal would lead to the rise of other terrorist threats.
"Afghanistan is hell on earth to those who are living there," he said Wednesday. "The Biden administration withdrew all our forces in a dishonorable way."
"Joe Biden has been the most incompetent president in my lifetime on foreign policy, worse than Jimmy Carter. He doesn't understand the nature of the war on terrorism, he believes we can withdraw from these regions and we can be safe."
Graham said he had always advocated for some U.S. military presence "in the backyard of our enemy so they don't come to our backyard," and added that ex-President Donald Trump's reduction of troops to 2,500 "was enough to hold the place together."
Concern About the Taliban
Graham accused the Taliban of intransigence in "helping and policing Al-Qaeda" and that "if we give them one dime of aid, it would be the ultimate betrayal of all the people who have been harmed by the Taliban and threatened by Al-Qaeda."
"The most incompetent decision since 9/11 is paving the way for another 9/11 against our homeland and our allies," he said.
"I've known Joe Biden for a long time," Graham told America's Newsroom. "I had a good personal relationship with him. He's a decent man, but what he did in Afghanistan, I will never forgive him for."
"He has blood on his hands and he's made America less safe," he said, calling him "the most consistently wrong man on foreign policy in my lifetime."
The tone Graham struck was markedly different to his pronouncements on Biden in the past, with the pair previously enjoying a friendly relationship over the years.
In 2016, Graham said in an interview: "If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person...you've got a problem," describing him as "the nicest person I think I've ever met in politics."
Biden has always defended the Afghan exit, saying at the end of August: "I was not going to extend this forever war, and I was not extending a forever exit."
Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment.
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Mr. Graham gets it.
Any references with homophobic undertones will be deleted as well as ANY subsequent comments of the poster.
Pretty sad you have to add disclaimers like that.
I know. But you know our friends around here as well as I do. One of whom won't be commenting on this seeded article.
Very sad. I’ll have to remember it the next time i seed an article about Clarence Thomas, he brings out the racists like bees to honey.
Yeah, they love old Clarence.
Why would anyone listen to anything Graham says? He flip flopped on Trump more times than anyone cares to remember.
He just says things intended to keep himself relevant to the national dialogue. Pretty much a waste of air.
Which makes him no different that say an AOC or any other "squat" yes squat with a t was intended member.
Thats almost as funny as "Lets Go Brandon".
Interesting.
Graham is a Rhodes Scholar compared to some in congress that you do listen to.
Ever since John McCain died Graham has been a clown. His sucking up to Trump over the years nauseated millions.
I thought he flip-flopped on Trump many times.
What's it going to be John? What's it going to be?
half of flip flopping is sucking up. comprendo?
Maybe 5% of the time he was critical of Trump. Then he would flip back to sucking up to him. Repeat as desired.
Oh, so now we have statistics?
Here's another stat for you. It's the direct corollary to this comment made by you:
And the other half is not sucking up ..... get it now?
What does Biden do well? Seriously.
He's not a leader. He can't talk in public without embarrassing himself. His Presidency has consisted of letting the left wing of his party run amok, divide the country and fail on every front but spending money our grandchildren will have to pay back.
Despite suffering a speech impediment President Biden is more eloquent than his predecessor and he has also cut Trump's federal budget deficit.
As I posted the other day with no response in response to your need to use a meme, and one full of bullshit at that, instead of commenting in your own words.
And I suspect I will get the same crickets today.
I find it interesting that the resident leftists never bring up or tout Biden's "accomplishments"
Not a single one of them can. There aren't any to tout.