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NICK GOSNELL
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HUTCHINSON — Kansas U.S. Senator Jerry Moran used a word Saturday he rarely uses on the record when talking about President Biden's choices in the pullout from Afghanistan.
"I'm angry about what's transpired," Moran said. "The decision was made to leave and I don't think that's the topic of conversation. That's not necessarily the debate today, but how we leave Afghanistan is hugely important and we did it in a way that angers me and creates lots of challenges for us."
Moran doesn't see the logic behind the administration's actions.
"I don't know why any administration, why you would ever set a deadline for a departure of a war. If you set a deadline that was your goal, you wouldn't make it public. If you had a goal of a certain date, you wouldn't have to live up to it, if there were still things that needed to be done, like the evacuation of Americans and our allies from Afghanistan."
That's not the only issue left behind, though, according to Moran.
"Our pastor's daughter and her husband in Hays were Afghan missionaries," Moran said. "Their request is, can you help us get Christians out of Afghanistan? I cannot understand the failure to have a plan to evacuate those people whose lives are in danger before we started the process of leaving and why the visas weren't more readily available and why we didn't have an airport and a secure place in which to take care of those people during the process of our departure."
Moran is back in Washington on Monday, weeks after he asked leader Schumer to bring them back to get answers to these questions.