I’m not sure if you have noticed, but there is a new liberal narrative that the Taliban has somehow turned over a new leaf. An MSNBC guest even went so far as to claim that conservatives are more dangerous— It’s ridiculous! It’s also a huge mistake to pretend the Taliban organization is anything other than a terrorist organization.
Thankfully, we have some voices of reason out there with their ears to the ground, like Texas Rep Michael McCaul who first alerted Americans to the potential hostage situation happening in Afghanistan. Currently, the Taliban is reusing to allow planes carrying Americans to take off as US citizens attempt to flee the country.
McCaul also broke his silence on the liberal narrative that the Taliban has changed.
“You know, executions are taking place. We’re getting videos coming in, stories of interpreters being, you know, blocked by the Taliban,” McCaul said in response to Fox News’s Chris Wallace. Wallace asked McCaul to shed some light on reports of mass killings. “Remember, they had a perimeter around the airport itself. The interpreters couldn’t get through that perimeter. Most Americans did. Some got blocked by our own U.S. government at the airport. The State Department wholly failed in this evacuation and we had to rely on groups like Operation Task Forces like Pineapple and Dunkirk, who I implore the State Department to work with, to help get these Americans and interpreters left behind out.”The Taliban is now carrying out mass killings of former Afghan government officials, former Afghan defense forces,” Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said to McCaul during the interview. “Can you shed any light on that?”
“But the retaliation has been severe, Chris,” he continued. “You have stories of interpreters being taken home to their families and watching, you know, their wives and families being beheaded, executed before they execute the interpreter. This is not a new and improved Taliban. This is the same old Taliban. They’re reverting back to the same brutal practices.”
McCaul explained, “the problem is, Chris, we are — we’ve gone dark. When Bagram went down, when we turned it over to the Afghan partners, now in Taliban hands, with all the cash and weaponry, when our embassy went down, we went dark. We have no eyes and ears in country, and we can’t see Russia, China, and Iran.”
“This is a major national security threat,” he added.
Later in the interview, McCaul warned of the potential dangers of being in the dark, “what we need to see, eyes and ears on the ground to see the threat so that we can respond to the threat and eliminate it. We don’t have that capability anymore. And, Chris, we’re going back to pre-9/11 right now, but it’s worse.”
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Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on Afghan interpreters abandoned by the Biden admin: “executions are taking place … the retaliation has been severe” pic.twitter.com/GcBqADFy2A
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A pregnant woman from California who is stranded in Afghanistan said the Taliban is “hunting” Americans now that the US military has withdrawn from the country. The woman, identified by her first name, Nasria, to protect her from reprisals, is among the up to 200 Americans still trapped in Afghanistan.
“There’s been days, you know, where I think to myself, ‘Am I going to make it home? Am I going to end up living here? Am I going to end up dying here?’” Nasria told Voice of America in an interview recorded on Friday.
