European Allies Fault U.S. Afghan Pullout, GOP Senator Says
- Hagerty says U.K. officials cited increased terror risk to him
- Brussels diplomats ‘blunt’ in criticizing Biden’s handling
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U.S. allies in Europe see an increased risk of terrorism because of the way the Biden administration handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Republican senator said after meeting officials in the U.K. and Brussels.
“The result is that we have a heightened exposure to terror now,” Senator Bill Hagerty, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan, said in an interview Sunday after returning from the 48-hour trip. The view among the officials he spoke with is that the U.S. “put the world at risk, or at least the world of our allies.”