While speaking at a news conference held at the State Department on April 29, 2020 in Washington, DC, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stops. ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State, stated that the US should "crush Taliban who are around Kabul."
President Joe Biden ordered Saturday's deployment of more troops to help with the evacuation of US personnel.
The Taliban have seized control over most of Afghanistan and reached Kabul, the capital on Sunday.
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In an interview on Sunday, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US Military should intervene in Afghanistan to free Kabul from Taliban control.
Pompeo stated that the Taliban should be destroyed and we can accomplish it with American air power during a appearance on Fox News Sunday. We should press them and inflict pain and cost on them.
He said, "Every President faces challenges." "This President faced a challenge in Afghanistan and he has utterly failed the American people to protect them from it."
According to the Associated Press, the Taliban took control over most of the country within a week despite the fact that the US and its allies had spent two decades trying to strengthen the government. Taliban insurgents seized Kabul's capital early Sunday morning and demanded the unconditional surrender all government officials.
The Taliban seized Jalalabad, Afghanistan's last major city under the government's control, without any fighting overnight.
According to Insider, Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal, Afghan Interior Minister, stated Sunday that there would be a peaceful transfer of power to the Taliban-led transitional government.
According to the AP, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan fled the country as Taliban insurgents advanced into additional parts of the country.
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Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has remained firm in his commitment to withdraw the US Military forces from Afghanistan. This will bring an end to the country’s two-decade-old effort to enter the country.
Biden ordered Saturday that an additional 5,000 troops be sent to Afghanistan to assist in the "orderly, safe drawdown" of US personnel and other allies personnel. He also directed the safe evacuation of Afghans who assisted our troops during the mission or were at risk from the Taliban advance.
Biden stated Saturday that "One more year or five years of US military presence would have no impact if the Afghan army cannot or won't hold its own country," in a statement. "And an interminable American presence in another country's civil war was unacceptable to me."
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