Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to President Biden’s “pathetic” attempt to place blame on his predecessor for the current chaos in Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdrew from the region. Following Biden’s order to remove the U.S. military from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Taliban moved rapidly to take over the country. However, rather than be held accountable the Biden administration has attempted to blame the Trump administration.

The Hill reports:

“I hope we get these folks out. I hope they will bring the airpower. They should go crush these Taliban who are surrounding Kabul. We can do it with American airpower,” Pompeo told Wallace.

“We should put pressure on them. We should inflict cost and pain on them. We shouldn’t be begging them to spare the lives of Americans. We should be imposing costs on the Taliban until they allow us to execute our plan in Afghanistan.”

“He should be less focused on trying to blame this on someone else than to solving the problem of making sure that we protect and defend American security.”

“He should be less focused on trying to blame this on someone else than to solving the problem of making sure that we protect and defend American security.”

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country over the weekend as the Taliban took over the country’s capital Kabul.