Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Terrorist 'Ideology' Now 'in Charge of Afghanistan'
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 26 September 2021 10:10 AM
After 9/11, the U.S. and NATO allies sought to dismantle terrorist ideology, not any one country, but now President Joe Biden has permitted that ideology to now take control of Afghanistan again, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., lamented Sunday.
"When we started the War on Terror 20 years ago, and it was dubbed the War of Terror, that we did that because we were fighting an ideology, not a nation state – and now, because of Joe Biden's bad decisions, what we have is an ideology that is now running a country and they're in charge of Afghanistan," Blackburn told Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on WABC 770 AM-N.Y. "They have indeed renamed it to the Islamic Emirate."
Afghanistan was targeted at the start of what would become the longest continuously running war in American history because it harbored terrorists and provided training grounds for al-Qaida, which staged the attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001.
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