Joni Ernst 'afraid of a Benghazi 2.0' in Afghanistan [View all]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday said she fears that the situation at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, could turn more deadly as chaos has erupted as people look to flee the country now under Taliban control.
"Absolutely, I'm afraid of a Benghazi 2.0. I think that this is something that many of us have worried about for weeks now as we have watched this scene deteriorate in Afghanistan," the Republican said during an appearance on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt's program. "Well, to me, our embassy personnel being safe means they have been safely evacuated from the country, they're out of the reach of the Taliban, and not to mention the thousands and thousands of Afghans and other people that supported us in our mission in Afghanistan."
Ernst's Benghazi reference harkens back to the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya where members of an Islamic militant group killed four Americans and injured a handful of others.
Republicans launched a wide-ranging investigation into the attack and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the months that followed and used the episode as a political cudgel against her as she ran for president in 2016.
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Senator you're fooling no one. You're hoping for another Benghazi.
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