MURPHY STATEMENT ON THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER OF KABUL
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, on Sunday released the following statement after the Taliban took control of the presidential palace in Kabul: “My heart is heavy today thinking about the innocent Afghan people who have been caught in the crosshairs of this conflict for decades and now face a devastatingly precarious future. My thoughts are also with all the U.S. military families whose lives have been turned upside down by this war. Our priority now needs to be evacuating American personnel and as many of our Afghan partners as humanly possible,” said Murphy. “But I firmly believe that President Biden made the right decision by standing by the Trump administration’s decision to bring our troops home…