Former Trump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal was a “surrender to a terrorist organization.”
Anchor Jake Tapper asked, “I want to get your thoughts on the Biden administration’s recent after-action report memo on the withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
He asked, “What do you make of the specific argument that the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the way it was done, gave Putin a green light to invade Ukraine? Do you believe that is true?”
McMaster said, “I do believe it’s true. You know, deterrence is capability times will. And after the disaster, the horrors that we witnessed on the — really, a surrender to a terrorist organization, Jake. We got to call it what it is. It was a surrender to a terrorist organization and a disastrous retreat. I think that Vladimir Putin concluded, and so did Xi Jinping, that our will is zero. I mean, take a look at the timing of…
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