Scoop: Hillary Clinton, Condi Rice concerned about Afghan troop withdrawal

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee they're worried about President Biden's plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with Rice suggesting the U.S. may need to go back, Axios has learned.

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What they're saying: "We had Secretaries Clinton and Condi Rice Zoom today with the committee," one committee member told Axios. "A little disagreement on Afghanistan, but they both agreed we're going to need to sustain a counterterrorism mission somehow outside of that country."

https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-condoleezza-rice-biden-afghanistan-troops-9e115f31-85c4-4f30-9663-30dd6e572895.html

[elleng]

1. 'WE've' been going back to Afghanistan for how many decades now???

[Under The Radar]

2. Condi's former employer owns the Trans Afghan Pipeline

Chevron, who named one of their ships after Condi Rice owns UnoCal. UnoCal is named as principle owner of the natural gas pipeline that goes from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan Pakistan then into India that will be left unprotected if US troops withdraw from the region. However the Taliban has pledged to guard the pipeline and its pumping stations. The same Taliban that the United States drove from power, claiming they planed the terrorist attacks of 9-11.

https://eurasianet.org/taliban-vows-to-guarantee-safety-of-trans-afghanistan-gas-pipeline

[RegularJam]

3. As far as messaging, this isn't a bad thing.

If Biden sticks to his guns.

It's a messaging win.