The White House brought out Defense Department spokesman John Kirby Tuesday to talk to the press about both Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan (which he again said is not an independent nation) and the killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike over the weekend. President Biden has taken a well-deserved victory lap, but some people have found it troubling that someone so high up in al Qaeda could be found chilling on the balcony of a New York Times op-ed contributor in downtown Kabul.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy told Kirby, “You guys gave a whole country to a bunch of people who are on the FBI Most Wanted list,” to which Kirby took exception, naturally.
Peter Doocy takes John Kirby to task over President Biden saying Al Qaeda was "gone" from Afghanistan.
KIRBY: "We talked about the fact that Al Qaeda had a presence in Afghanistan but small…" pic.twitter.com/lYDlpZl8X1
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 2, 2022
Small and mostly peaceful.
DOOCY: "You guys gave a whole country to a bunch of people who are on the FBI Most Wanted list. What did you think was going to happen?"
KIRBY: "I take issue with the premise we gave a whole country to a terrorist group…" pic.twitter.com/Tb6FW4FdL1
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 2, 2022
Take issue all you want. It doesn’t make it less true
— d.h. (@DrewHowardson) August 2, 2022
Right on point Peter.
— DorisHN Pure Blood (@arh0526) August 2, 2022
They absolutely did.
— World Explorer (@LeoNYC) August 2, 2022
Kirby would refer to them as "austere clerics"
— Ken Sailor (@springssailor) August 2, 2022
He can take exception to the premise, but that doesn't mean he's right to do so.
— Michael Nolen (@Michael40707676) August 2, 2022
Afghanistan is run and controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban was harboring Ayman al-Zawahiri. This morning, Kirby told CNN Al Qaeda is actively using Afghanistan as a safe harbor to plan attacks. https://t.co/qAJhLzmgv2
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 2, 2022
The truth hurts
— Missouri Patriot (@Silvernugget1) August 2, 2022
They wanted to come out today and spike the football but the facts got in the way
— ⚔️✍🏼 Woke Rasputin 🥃⚔️ 💎 (@RasputinWoke) August 2, 2022
It's strange that terrorist groups like the Taliban don't honor peace agreements. How could we have ever seen this coming?
— Dr. Platimus (@SWGaspar) August 2, 2022
I'm old enough to remember this pic.twitter.com/OOIM1jfyAh
— My FBI agent watches me pee (@WuhanButtFlu) August 2, 2022
We are so screwed in every way possible with this administration.
— Jersey Girl (@queenofeaster) August 2, 2022
Doocy didn’t even mention the billions of dollars of hardware we left over there.
Related:
Biden’s assurance about Afghanistan 1 year ago today has aged as disastrously as everything else this admin touched https://t.co/Vg9FpddYT1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 8, 2022
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