The U.S. has temporarily halted all U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees from bases overseas after four evacuees tested positive for measles, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a briefing.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., criticized the Biden administration's handling of evacuations from Kabul as a"strategic failure" on ABC's"The View" on Friday and expressed deep concern for what will happen in the coming weeks as the Taliban exercises complete control of the country.
"Afghanistan has a constitution. That constitution and that government was overthrown by force by a military coup of the Taliban. I don't think at any other time we'd look at a military coup by an enemy, in a country of an ally and say, we're looking forward to finding opportunities to work with them," Kinzinger said, as the U.S. cooperates with the Taliban to get some 100 remaining Americans out.
"There will be a moment, I fear, when the cell towers come down or the information is locked down, and we see the acceleration of the brutalization of women, of gays, of people that are different than what the Taliban wants them to be," he added. Kinzinger argued there is"so much hypocrisy" in the debate on whom to blame for the war ending as it began, under Taliban rule, including on all three presidents preceding Biden, but said the execution of the withdrawal is"what's broken so many hearts."
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