Biden’s Afghanistan Report is Pure Fiction…4 June 2023

     GOP: Biden Afghanistan Report is Spineless Fiction
Posted on April 10, 2023 by Matt

     Republican lawmakers pushed back against President Joe
Biden administration report this week regarding the August
2021 evacuation of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
    The public description of the disastrous Afghanistan
retreat issued by the Biden White House today, according to
House Military Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers,
R-Al is a spineless piece of fiction. Biden decision is be-
ing blamed on the Trump administration, as expected, but
also the senior military advisors and the Intelligence Com-
munity. 
     Rogers stated that President Biden was responsible for
this withdrawal, and he ought to assume accountability for
the tragedy that resulted from his actions.
     The report, released Thursday, stated President Biden
choices for executing a withdrawal from Afghanistan were
severely restrained by conditions imposed by the Trump Ad-
ministration negotiations with the Taliban. Trump ordered 
direct discussions with the Taliban without consulting Ame-
rica allies or inviting the Afghanistan government to 
negotiate.
     A spokesman for the National Security Council, John
Kirby, told reporters on Thursday that the Biden Adminis-
tration underestimated the rate at which the Taliban could
retake the country, leading to the tumultuous and deadly
evacuations in the last days of August 2021, during which a
suicide bomber at one of the Kabul airport gates killed
13 American service members.
     Kirby claimed they failed to account for the Taliban
rapid expansion in Afghanistan. The Biden Administration
didn't fully anticipate the degree to which the Taliban
were constructing deals in the hinterlands that crumpled
like dominoes. They also didn't anticipate how fast the
Afghan National Security Forces would fold and not fight
for their country specifically after America had dedicated
20 years to training and equipping them. Kirby added it
wasn't fully appreciated the corruption in the officer
ranks in the military.
     Despite the chaos, the United States evacuated more
than 124,000 people from Afghanistan during the tumultuous
withdrawal, Kirby said.
     Republican legislators did not favorably receive the
assessment.
     Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker told re-
porters that many should be held responsible for this
blunder in a well-run government. The Biden administration
has provided an extensive and profoundly partisan expla-
nation of its flawed Afghanistan policy to the public
rather than addressing honestly and openly the funda-
mental problems in its decision-making process.
     Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the ranking member of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has stated that the
leaders of China and Russia noted the bungled effort in
Afghanistan.
     Risch told the media that the White House release of
an after-action report on the disastrous withdrawal from
Afghanistan is unfortunate and untimely. Attempts were made
to hide the revelation over the holiday weekend nearly two
years later. The Biden administration failure to act force-
fully cost the lives of American service members and count-
less innocent civilians. Risch added it also doesn't take a
report to establish that Russia and China watched atten-
tively.**
     The US actually only evacuated 82,300 people, most of
which were Afghans. Only 90% of the Americans that wanted
to leave were actually evacuated. There are some 600 left
there and thousands of Afghans who supported our effort
are still there, left to the murderous actions of Hamas.
     Blinken, as usual was careful not to give specific
numbers of the number of Americans left at risk.
     Then there is also the $86B in military equipment
left behind due to the disastrous clueless actions of a
so-called leader who had no clue and his military leader-
ship was even less informed.
     Anyone with a clue would remove the equipment, which
includes ammunition before removing the personnel and to
leave the most isolated and well defended air base to the
invaders and try to do an evacuation in town was completely
stupid.
     Sadly Democrats do not learn from their mistakes so
we need to pray to God for all those souls that Biden
showed how little he cared.

   Conservatively,
   John