Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley Sunday shows preview: Chaos in Kabul marches U.S. evacuation efforts Pence leads Youngkin fundraiser in GOP Governor Virginia’s South Carolina race to hold a Myrtle Beach event that will show aspirants in 2024 MORE on Sunday he criticized the Biden administration for its execution in withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, saying it “completely surrendered to the Taliban.”
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” guest host Major Garrett asked Haley if he agreed with the Biden administration’s claim that it is not negotiating with the Taliban as it continues to evacuate citizens and allies. Americans.
“They are not negotiating with the Taliban. They have completely surrendered to the Taliban. They have ceded the base of the Bagram Air Force, which was a major center of NATO. They delivered $ 85 billion in equipment and weapons that we would have of having gotten from there They have surrendered the American people and withdrawn our troops before they withdrew the American people. They have abandoned our Afghan allies who kept people like my husband safe, ”Haley said.
However, Haley also acknowledged that the Biden administration must now do “whatever it takes to get our Americans out.”
“This is an incredible scenario where the Taliban are literally holding our Americans hostage,” he added.
Haley, who served as ex President Trump
Donald Trump: Democrats sound alarmed at loss in Connecticut suburbs, Abbott Laboratories orders employees to remove quick test materials from COVID-19 Sunday shows preview: Chaos in Kabul marches US evacuation efforts MORE, fired at the arguments that the Trump administration established the withdrawal from Afghanistan and that the blame should be shared between Biden and his predecessor.
“Less than four years after Trump, Afghanistan was safe. We made sure we kept terrorism at bay and that we came from a stronghold of position,” Haley said. “There are times when you have to negotiate with the devil, but you negotiate with the devil from a point of strength. You don’t do it from a point of weakness. Literally, right now we have no leverage with the Taliban.”
Haley called on the Biden administration to extend the deadline for evacuations on Aug. 31 and said the U.S. must make it clear that Americans will arrive at Kabul airport safely.
“We have to get rid of our Americans. We have to stay true to the Afghan allies we made promises to. And we have to make sure we do it in a very strong way in the future,” he said. . .