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A Labour MP has demanded the UK take in tens of thousands of Afghanis after the government signalled that it was planning a separate refugee policy likely modelled on the Syrian scheme that saw over 20,000 Syrians come to the UK.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki interrupted her vacation this week to address President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan disaster.

President Joe Biden repeatedly condemned the idea of “nation-building” in Afghanistan during his speech on Monday, but in 2003 he defended the idea of standing with the Afghan people.

During an appearance on CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” Matthew Dowd predicted little impact politically for Democrats.

Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his broadcast with a scathing critique of the Biden administration’s priorities, which he argued, in part, led to the collapse of the Afghani government after nearly two decades of a U.S. presence.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore compared rioters who entered the U.S. Capitol in January to radical Taliban terrorists on Monday

French populist party leader Marine Le Pen has criticised the Biden administration after the rapid fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, stating it is unable to defend the free world.

On Monday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) responded to President Joe Biden blaming former President Donald Trump for tying his hands in Afghanistan by stating that Biden doesn’t feel tied to Trump’s policies in any other area, and

More than 80,000 Afghans want visas to come to the United States, according to an August 16 report in the Washington Post.

Former Interior Secretary and Montana congressional candidate Ryan Zinke released a statement Monday evening following President Joe Biden’s remarks on the Afghanistan evacuation, referring to his efforts as a “failure from a finger pointing politician desperate to save his skin and find a scapegoat.”

Rep. Greg Murphy M.D. (R-NC) took aim at Biden’s “poorly planned withdrawal” of troops from Afghanistan, claiming he “missed the mark and failed to confront the challenge of this moment” and “deflected blame to everyone else but himself.”

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined the ranks of Republican leaders condemning President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) stated that while she supports President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, “the planning and the movement toward where we are today I don’t think was well-thought-out and well-planned.” Lee

President Trump dismissed Biden’s rhetoric on Monday, noting that it failed to acknowledge his administration’s hand in botching the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Monday on MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen denied reports that his forces are murdering Afghan military and civilians that worked with Americans over the past 20 years.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasted President Joe Biden after “finally” addressing the “worst foreign policy disaster in decades” caused by a failed withdrawal from Afghanistan.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said the ongoing operation in Afghanistan is a “failure” and President Joe Biden’s claim that his administration planned for every possibility in Afghanistan is false, because “if they had planned

Oregon Republican Alek Skarlatos, a U.S. Army National Guard veteran, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday that Republicans veterans would serve as a check to President Joe Biden’s disastrous foreign policy if they take back the House majority in the 2022 midterm elections.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) rebuked President Joe Biden for “assigning blame to everyone but himself,” during his Monday address on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

A distraught Afghan journalist demanded answers at a Pentagon briefing on Monday, amid a seemingly-bungled United States military drawdown.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed President Joe Biden’s response to the Taliban terrorists talking over Afghanistan as “weak,” showing “he is unfit to serve as President of the United States.”

Hollywood celebrities have sprung into damage control mode following President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, attempting to blame former President Donald Trump for Biden’s mismanaged and chaotic retreat that has left the country in Taliban control, including the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Former CIA analyst Matt Zeller told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Monday on her show “Deadline” that President Joe Biden lied to the American people during his address on the chaotic evacuation of Afghans that worked with our military over the last 20 years.

CNN Journalist Clarissa Ward was forced to don a hijab overnight as the Taliban begin their campaign to restrict women.

President Joe Biden will return to Camp David on Monday evening to resume his vacation after returning to the White House for a few hours to deliver a speech defending his handling of the troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden used an address to the American public on Monday afternoon to defend his alleged decision to withdraw militarily from Afghanistan, just hours after approving a 6,000-troop deployment to the country and nearly four months from the date U.S. troops would have withdrawn if he had not changed the deadline.

After NBC News chief legal correspondent and TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie questioned how the Biden administration had been “so wrong” in it’s Afghanistan assessment, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan attempted to minimize the extent of the chaotic scenes in Kabul.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) blasted President Joe Biden’s speech on Afghanistan as “disconnected from reality” and criticized Biden for acting as if the withdrawal is going well when Americans are

The Taliban seized a staggering quantity of American military vehicles, equipment, and weapons when it overran Afghanistan in a week. President Joe Biden, a Democrat obsessed with gun control, ended up giving billions of dollars of American weapons to the Islamist fanatics that helped perpetrate 9/11.

Americans must welcome everyone who is fleeing Afghanistan, says the president of Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-migration advocacy group, which is already pushing for easier migration from Mexico, and for multiple national amnesties this fall. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is trying to push the same talking points that President Joe Biden’s White House has been using on his failed withdrawal from Afghanistan saying the administration knew it was a possibility that Kabul would fall back into the hands of the Taliban terrorists.

The United Nations Security Council echoed the Taliban’s call for an “inclusive” Afghanistan in a statement on Monday, calling for an “inclusive and representative” new government that includes “the full, equal and meaningful participation of women.” The U.N. also urged the Taliban

The Biden administration chases “white supremacy” and “white rage” as Americans are in peril in Afghanistan, Kash Patel said.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday criticized President Biden’s handling of the Taliban’s takeover of the Afghan government, stating that the administration has failed to act with urgency and sufficiently address the humanitarian crisis both in Afghanistan and at the U.S. border.

It’s bad enough that Kabul in 2021 is an acid-trip of bad nostalgia to Saigon in 1975. It would be even worse if Kabul turns into a replay of Tehran in 1979, complete with hostages on videos, ransom demands, agonizing negotiations, and perhaps valiant but doomed rescue attempts.

America’s most determined enemies around the world celebrated the victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, hailing it as a sign that the United States no longer has the power to interfere with their own ambitions.