WASHINGTON, 27 June 2021, (TON): US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell met with President Ashraf Ghani, Abdullah Abdullah the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation and other Afghan officials who accompany the president in his two-day visit to the United States.

In meeting with President Ghani at the Capital, McConnell said “he hopes President Biden will delay the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.”

McConnel said “President Biden’s decision to withdraw US forces leaves our Afghan partners alone to confront threats that his own top advisors acknowledge are grave and growing worse.”

 He said “The Taliban, emboldened by our retreat, is rolling back years of progress, especially for the rights of Afghan women, on its way to taking Kabul.”

He added “increasing indications that this collapse could come soon after US withdrawal is complete are as tragic as they are avoidable.”

He said that in the Taliban’s wake, al-Qaeda is already preparing for an ambitious resurgence of its own, which the President’s own Defense Secretary warns could lead to direct threats to the US homeland in as little as two years.

He further said “without a reversal of US policy, I suspect this threat will come much more quickly.”