WASHINGTON D.C.- Damn the deadline. Do not give the Taliban the power nor the time of day.

Sen. Ben Sasse has hit those themes hard, heaping criticism on President Joe Biden in a series of press releases and high-profile interviews during the past week, during Afghanistan’s speedy fall to the fundamentalist Islamist group that ruled the country before 9/11.

“The Taliban doesn’t get to run a countdown clock on American lives,” he told NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Wednesday.

“They need to go faster. We have a national security crisis, it’s ongoing,” he told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “We have a lot of Americans in harm’s way.”

“President Biden needs to eliminate all red tape and let our troops load families onto planes. Move! Run an airlift around the clock,” Sasse told CNN’s Jake Tapper last week.

Sasse spared no criticism, though, in an interview Wednesday with The World-Herald. He said the Trump administration should never have negotiated with the Taliban, much less agreed to withdraw U.S. forces by May 1 of this year.

But he said it was Biden’s fault for sticking to the agreement, and then failing to get out U.S. citizens and Afghan allies before the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and Army.

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