Stephen Colbert, host of CBSā āThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,ā is comparing supporters of former President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol to militants in Afghanistan.
On Monday, Colbert defended the decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan as he asked, āWhy should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a Civil War in Afghanistan?ā
āWeāve got our own on Capitol Hill,ā he added drawing laughs from the audience.
The late-night hostās comments referred to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol when Trump supporters stormed the building to halt the certification of the Electoral College vote count.
They come after the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal from the country.
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During remarks at the White House on Monday, President Joe Bidendefended the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan as he asked, āHow many more generations of Americaās daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans ā Afghanistanās civil war, when Afghan troops will not?ā
He later added, āAmerican troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.ā
Additionally, he argued that there āwas never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.ā
Colbert is not the only person to compare those who stormed the Capitol to militants.
Daniel Hodges, a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan police officer who helped defend the Capitol, said that those who stormed the building are āterrorists.ā
Though he acknowledged that āI can see why someone would take issue with the title of terrorist. Itās gained a lot of notoriety in our vocabulary in the past few decades, and weād like to believe that no, that couldnāt happen here. No domestic terrorism. No homegrown threats.ā
Biden has received bipartisan criticism for his execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan as images and videos surfaced of Afghans clinging to the sides of U.S. military jets trying to escape the country.