July 25, 2018, Washington, DC, USA; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies to Senate Foreign Relations Committee on diplomacy and national security. Mandatory credit: Camille Fine-USA TODAY
News: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies to Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NEW YORK (77WABC) — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that America is more likely to face another 9/11-type attack thanks to President Biden’s controversial exit from Afghanistan last year.
Pompeo, who served under former President Donald Trump, criticized Biden over the withdrawal, saying it put the Taliban in “full control” there and made Americans less safe as a result.
“We are more likely to be attacked like New York City was 20 some years ago, we’re more likely to be attacked from [Afghanistan] today than we were just one year ago,” Pompeo said on The Cats Roundtable hosted by 77WABC owner and operator John Catsimatidis. “We are now one year from what everybody saw with their own eyes: Americans left behind. Thirteen Americans dead. The Afghan people clinging to American aircraft as we turned tail and ran out of that country. To have had that debacle embarrass our country on the world stage, made us less safe, convinced Putin that he could begin his aggressive conduct in Ukraine.”
Last August, the U.S. military left Afghanistan after being in the country since 2001. During the withdrawal, 13 U.S. service members were killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport.
