The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s more than two-year investigation into the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal orchestrated by Biden-Harris was released in part Sunday, and the conclusions are devastating. The president was hellbent on getting American troops out at any cost, ignored his own advisors, lied to the public, and took highly dangerous—and highly unacceptable—risks. The full report is expected Monday.
The Committee didn’t mince words in its conclusion:
“During his decades-long tenure as a Delaware US senator, eight years as vice president of the United States and nearly four years as president, Mr. Biden has demonstrated distrust of America’s military experts and advisors and has prioritized politics and his personal legacy over America’s national security interests,” the roughly 350-page report asserted.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is getting to the bottom of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. The decision to remove all troops regardless of conditions being met was reckless and deadly. People deserve to know what happened and will learn more in tomorrow’s report. pic.twitter.com/E0VrAvphje
— Congressman Mike Lawler (@RepMikeLawler) September 8, 2024
Biden-Harris have tried to blame Trump for the debacle—which cost 13 American servicemembers their lives and left many more injured—claiming that the “Doha agreement” that the Trump administration had reached with the Taliban regarding withdrawal dates tied their hands. The problem with the argument is that Biden has previously shown “little deference” to the agreement, and some in Biden’s own administration argued that the Taliban was violating the terms, making the agreement invalid.
According to the report, the Doha agreement was just an excuse anyway; Biden wanted so badly to end the war that he ignored the advice of his most senior advisors and stuck his finger in the eyes of our NATO allies:
Biden made the decision to pull out entirely despite nearly every military official advising against it, the document said.
“Despite President Biden’s public assertions to the contrary, our investigation has revealed the secretary of defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the commander of US Central Command, the secretary of state, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission and United States Forces-Afghanistan all advised against withdrawing all US troops from the country — both during and after the interagency review,” the report said.
The Harris-Biden administration also ignored the international community’s concerns, barreling past the objections of other NATO nations that deployed to Afghanistan in support of the US.
There is much more in the report, and RedState will continue to analyze the committee’s findings when the full version is released Monday. In the meantime, there’s already much teeth gnashing from the left, with the New York Times fretting that the report is politically timed to affect the presidential election and that Republicans tried to tie Kamala Harris’ name to the disaster without evidence.
One problem: there is evidence:
Kamala's avoided scrutiny by design for 48 days.
In 72hrs her REAL RECORD will be exposed & she wants to hide her key role in the failed Afghanistan withdrawal.
She was the last one in the room.
She was "comfortable" with it.
Her team knows this is bad.
Don't fall for the spin. https://t.co/zm51RBFy0u pic.twitter.com/SJY0hniE0s— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) September 7, 2024
Chairman Mike McCaul appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday to rebut the charge that the timing was politically motivated. He argued that it’s taken them two years to complete the report because they’ve encountered obstruction every step of the way.
Regardless of the timing, this is the Biden-Harris legacy—and no amount of spin is going to change that.
