Previewing first GOP-led House hearing on Afghan withdrawal: ‘Stunning failure of leadership’

Top House Republican condemned President Joe Biden You can find out more about a “stunning failure of leadership” Ahead of the first public hearing by a House committee about this topic U.S. military’s It is chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan Since the Republicans have taken control of Congress.

It House Foreign Affairs Committee The Chairman, Michael McCaul (Republican-Texas), will be leading a hearing entitled “During and after the Fall of Kabul”: Examining how the Administration handled the emergency evacuation from Afghanistan “, Wednesday. In the hearing four witnesses will testify. They all were part of the evacuation of more than 120,000 Afghans under threat. Taliban regime.

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“What happened in Afghanistan was a systemic breakdown of the federal government at every level — and a stunning failure of leadership by the Biden administration,” McCaul stated in a statement that he was speaking out for the Washington Examiner. “As a result, the world watched heartbreaking scenes unfold in and around the Kabul airport. I want every gold and blue star family member, and every veteran out there who watch this hearing to know: I will not rest until we determine how this happened — and hold those accountable responsible.”

Peter Lucier and retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann are the three witnesses who will be appearing before the committee. They were all part of various organizations that assisted in the evacuation of at-risk Afghans. Aidan Gunderson (a former Army combat medic, who was present at Hamid Karzai International Airport during frantic 2021 evacuation) is also appearing before this committee.

Mann said that Mann was the Washington Examiner In an interview where the hearing is “long overdue” He plans to. “speak from a veterans point of view,” Which he stated he believed has “been missing from all of this.”

“On the mental health front, I think we’re on the front end of a mental health tsunami right now with this moral injury. I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface with what this is potentially going to manifest as in the years ahead,” He continued. “I think one of the things that veterans are going to be looking at, and military family members, is what measures are put in place to prevent this generational systemic abandonment of our partners.”

There were terrible events that marred the final days of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A suicide vest was detonated by an ISIS K operative on August 26, 2021. killing 13 U.S. service members There were approximately 170 civilians at the gate of the airport, where evacuations were taking place, as U.S. forces launched an attack on what they believed was another. imminent threat The airport staff did not know the target, so the target was misidentified. 10 civilians died, including several children.

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