Pentagon Spox: Trump Admin Has ‘Obligation’ To Hold Accountable Officials Involved In Afghanistan Withdrawal
March 18, 2025 No Comments
“We’re in the process of figuring out what that investigation will look like,” Parnell stated.
“We’re in the process of figuring out what that investigation will look like,” Parnell stated.
Blinken was subpoenaed to testify about the Afghanistan withdrawal, which ended in the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and thousands of Americans initially stranded in the country, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) on Tuesday, but decided not to attend, leading committee Republicans to vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, according to Axios.
The committee has pursued a testimony agreement from Ms. Psaki for months as it endeavors to gather information about President Joe Biden’s decision-making process over the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Republican Texas Rep. Michael McCaul sent a letter Wednesday morning to former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s lawyer threatening a subpoena after she failed to respond to an original request to appear for a transcribed interview as part of the committee’s probe into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s return to barbarism also reveals the inability or unwillingness of rising Asian powers like China and India to fill the vacuum left behind by a receding U.S. Despite what many leftists believe, a diminished U.S. would be a disaster for many nations of the so-called Global South. Ask the women of Afghanistan.
In mid-August 2021, Biden repeatedly denied he had been briefed by military leaders who warned him against withdrawing from Afghanistan, forcing his administration to give conflicting messages over the issue.
“….especially then seeing the [Biden] administration repeatedly say that, ‘The Taliban were now our partners,’ that they were being ‘businesslike and professional,’ when of course this is the same Taliban that we just spent 20 years fighting.”
The mother of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, Cheryl Rex, wore her son’s dog tags and spoke with a shaky voice as she recounted a briefing from a colonel and judge advocate general (JAG) in January 2022, where she said she realized “everything, even the way my son died is being covered up.”
‘Remember what I said about Afghanistan? I said al-Qaeda would not be there. I said we’d get help from the Taliban. What’s happening now? What’s going on? Read your press. I was right.’
The president was not right. In fact, he was wrong
The UN report says that more than 20 groups now operate under Taliban protection, with secure training camps and passports for fighters. This is all in plain sight.
“It’s just shameful, and starting with the timing of the release, they dropped it on the afternoon of the Friday before the Fourth of July, which is just a naked attempt to bury it, to not have anybody pay attention to it,” says Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation.
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