Pompeo: Biden has refused to show leadership over Afghanistan Conflict
Pompeo: Biden has refused to show leadership over Afghanistan conflict
Former secretary of state weighs in on the chaos in Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal on ‘Hannity’
Sean Hannity Show. August 20, 2021
Hannity: Our fellow Americans are in deep trouble tonight. Behind enemy lines, our friends our allies are in deep trouble behind enemy lines. You know Leave No Man or Woman Behind? Well Great Britain and France to their credit they sent in troops to Kabul to escort citizens from Kabul successfully, to the airport. Why haven’t we? We have the best military fighting force on the face of the earth. Yes, Americans now can’t get to the airport, held hostage and they are behind enemy lines. Joining us now with more, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I know you have plenty of contacts in the region. Without asking specific questions, which I will get to. Come I want you to give your best assessment of the situation. On the ground and what potential options you might see to get our fellow Americans and our allies out. Pompeo: Well, Sean you pretty much catalogued the chaos and the tragedy of these past six days. We now have Americans trapped behind enemy lines. Today, what President Biden said frankly made it worse. I did not hear a single thing from him today that would have given comfort to those families. There is still no plan to get these Americans back I feared. I did not hear a single thing that would give comfort to the areas spoke about. I have heard from the people in the region, they are frightened by the American collapse, the American collapse of temerity and strength and power that we demonstrated for four years that had frankly kept the Taliban at bay and prevent it precisely what you are seeing happening here today. And I did not hear a single thing that would frighten a single Taliban, thinks there is any risk this administration will impose any cost on them for their activities, for what they are doing to Americans today. Holding them hostage, not permitting them to get into the airport and Kabul so we can get them home to their families. This is a debacle of significant proportions. We have not seen anything like this, the United States, in an awfully long time. America has the tools to fix this. Alarm military could certainly figure out a way to get these folks back and to destroy some of these millions of dollars in equipment that we left behind. American resolve and leadership and President Biden has refused to show this for the entire time.
Sean Hannity: This is all preventable, the Biden White House was warned, they were warned by their own people, they were warned weeks ago. This was inevitable I’m told, for example, the CIA pulled their people out over six weeks ago. They all saw it coming.
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Mike Pompeo: Sean, that is absolutely true. I was on the phone call when he spoke with Mullah Barada, he told him very plainly, he set down a set of expectation and have every expectation, you will comply with those conditions. If you do not comply with those conditions, we will resign American power on top of you. Sean, from time to time, they pushed a little too far to a checkpoint or something it was inconsistent with our understanding and we crush them. We had a deterrence model that America is strong, you are weak, you are going to do the things we want you to do, and until you do, we are not going to comply with the promises we made. Look, Sean, as much as we wanted to get everybody out, we did not get to the point where conditions were right to do exactly that. We went from 16,000 to 2,250 and we maintained the order that had been in Afghanistan. We maintained the order that had been in Afghanistan. We were successful in doing that. Now they have twice as many come almost three times as many American Military in there and it is chaos. This is because of failed leadership. This is because the Taliban think they face no risk from this President of the United States.
Mike Pompeo: Sean, it’s pretty incomprehensible to me. I can’t explain the absence of planning. At first they said they planned. Then they said they couldn’t have planned, — I can’t explain. where when they saw this, they didn’t do the right thing for the American People. I can assure you that President Trump and I would have one that. Every time the Taliban pushed, we pushed right back. We had a deterrence model in place, when the Taliban pushed year, 10%, 20% we withdrew, we withdrew the support that was needed to make sure that we could get Americans out from behind what was to become enemy lines, to make sure we could support our allies, the promises that we had made to them, all of these things, the things the whole world is seeing right now. American Leadership crumble the face of the Taliban might. This has got ramifications that will last an awfully long time. Sean, I hope this President is determined enough to begin to take back the capacity to exert American influence in this region and deal with the Taliban.
