"...A former Navy SEAL who served five deployments overseas, Crenshaw argued earlier this month, in The Wall Street Journal, that Biden’s withdrawal was a disastrous and dangerous move with short-term and long-term effects.
In the piece, Crenshaw also criticized the “no more endless wars” crowd.
“They prefer to live in a dream world rather than face the reality that our enemies are ideologically opposed to Western civilization and will gladly stage another 9/11 if they have the opportunity and means,” he wrote.
The Texas lawmaker argued, “There are many options between nation building and giving up, and we had found a good one in Afghanistan before President Biden abandoned it.”
There’s a difference “between wasteful nation building and a small residual force that conducts occasional counterterror operations,” Crenshaw said. When that isn’t understood, “many Americans hear that there is a single soldier on the ground in Afghanistan, they interpret it to mean ‘nation building’ and ‘world police.'”
“That’s wrong,” the Republican asserted. “There are a lot of foreign policy options between nation building and giving up. We found the proper balance in recent years—maintaining a small force that propped up the Afghan government while also giving us the capability to strike at Taliban and other terrorist networks as needed...”
Crenshaw: ‘Know For A Fact’ Biden Rejected Generals’ ‘Good Advice;’ ‘Reasonable’ To Ask Why They Didn’t Resign In Protest
Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) said Monday that he knows “for a fact” U.S. Military generals gave President Joe Biden good advice on the withdrawal efforts in Afghanistan that POTUS just did not take. It’s “reasonable,” the Republican noted, to now ask why those generals didn’t fight harder against...www.dailywire.com
Trump agreed to a total withdrawal. There was no plan for a small force left behind. Criticize Biden for the bizarre execution all you want, but both Trump and Biden were pulling everyone out.
