GOP Rep. SPEWS Pro-Military, Anti-Democracy Rhetoric On CNN

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) went on @CNN yesterday to share his helpful perspective that @DonaldJTrumpforPresident and Joe Biden are both to blame for the chaos following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump is to blame for setting up a bad deal with the Taliban and Biden is to blame for following through with the promised withdrawal of troops. The Majority Report crew discuss the fact that the military brass is complicit in the inception and length of Afghanistan's occupation.

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Emma Vigeland: Illinois Congressman Adam Kenzinger was on CNN yesterday, and he's blaming Trump and Biden.

Matt Lech: He's a Never Trump guy, right?

EV: Yeah, yeah. And he's a Republican, but you know I am immensely disheartened that a good section of this country is consuming CNN on a regular basis when it comes to this very topic. That's like what you can draw a direct line to in terms of Biden's approval rating on Afghanistan dropping, because it has been nonstop, nonstop hammering of the disaster that is this withdrawal — when, as we have mentioned multiple times on this program, the withdrawal would have always been a disaster because the war was the disaster. And this is what we have reaped because of the bloodshed that we have caused and the destabilization. Here is Adam Kinzinger with Erin Burnett yesterday.

AK: But look, both people bear blame here. And I know in such a tribal moment that we live in we can't fathom that both Republicans and Democrats could bear blame because each side is busy pointing at the other. But Donald Trump set up a a deal you know that would make Neville Chamberlain blush, as he's out there saying you know that this war is not worth it, we're going to leave. My goal is to leave, it's an endless war. Then he empowers Pompeo to go negotiate a deal on that context. Pompeo negotiated a bad deal, they weren't following the deal the Taliban they weren't ceasing attacks they still went forward as if this deal was working. And then after he got out of his office he even as recently as a month ago said, "I boxed Joe Biden in." At the same time, Joe Biden who has reversed a lot of Donald Trump's stuff including Nord Stream 2 sanctions and things along that line made the decision to leave. He owns this decision as much as Donald Trump, and the execution. I just think both Republicans and Democrats have failed the American people.

ML: So this is what i'm talking about. This is anti-democracy rhetoric. First of all, Neville Chamberlain appeased Hitler, so i don't really know if he would blush by negotiations with the Taliban. I think he would actually probably think the Taliban's small potatoes compared to negotiations with Adolf Hitler. And the "both parties should bear the blame" thing of course, on a very basic sense that's true. They're all complicit in this. But you have to be careful when a certain type of person says that because what they're saying is the military deserves none of the blame for this. But if you actually look at the things we were saying about Biden ten years ago when Obama was in office about how the military just gives, "We want more troops or many more troops. Those are the options that we're giving you." The military is absolutely every bit as complicit as the parties are in this. Having people like McMaster or the CNN mouthpieces do laundry for this occupation is really infuriating.