Nancy Mace blames 'bipartisan interventionist foreign policy establishment' for Afghanistan disaster

Freshmen Congresswoman Nancy Mace represents my hometown, South Carolina's District 1.

Nancy is not only a fresh new face for the Republican Party but is also a libertarian-leaning Republican who shares many of the same ideas and principles as GOP leaders such as former Congressman Ron Paul, Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee, and Congressman Thomas Massie.

In her recent column in Charleston's Post & Courier, Nancy explains why staying in Afghanistan for twenty years was the problem and points her finger directly at the "bipartisan interventionist foreign policy establishment in Washington" for carrying on America's longest war for so long.

"Is the problem really that we decided to leave Afghanistan after almost 20 years in-country, trillions of dollars spent and thousands of American lives lost?" writes Mace. "I don’t think so."

"The problem was that we didn’t leave soon enough," Mace insists. "We fell into the trap of trying to create order out of chaos, a modern country out of tribalistic people, and democracy out of nowhere."

Is the problem really that we decided to leave Afghanistan after almost 20 years in country, trillions of dollars spent, and thousands of American lives lost? I don’t think so. My thoughts on the Afghanistan catastrophe in the @postandcourier: https://t.co/LG7uPnnlqV

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) August 17, 2021

Mace notes that we were right to go in after 9/11, but that mission should have been brief.

"Our mission in going to Afghanistan was honorable and necessary," Mace notes. "The Taliban, who controlled Afghanistan, harbored and protected the terrorist organization that was behind the 9/11 attacks on the United States, and they needed to pay a price."

Mace adds, "That price was largely extracted within the initial months in Afghanistan."

Mace, who comes from a military family, observes, "Our military did its best, and it did so with honor and courage, as always. I’m proud of our men and women in uniform. They stuck to their mission, even when they were often targeted by the very people they were trying to train and help. They deserve nothing but honor and praise."

Then Nancy lays direct blame at who is really responsible for our debacle in Afghanistan.

"But I reserve the blame really for the bipartisan interventionist foreign policy establishment in Washington, and it is because of them I am speaking out today," Mace writes.

"We could have saved trillions of dollars and saved thousands of American lives by leaving sooner," Mace finishes. "Let this be the lesson the next time any interventionist — Democratic or Republican — wants to keep us in a never-ending war to nation-build or wants us to police the world."

Read Nancy's entire column here.