Admin officials to Reuters: Heads won't roll over Afghanistan debacle because it would mean admittin

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Admin officials to Reuters: Heads won't roll over Afghanistan debacle because it would mean admitting failure
Ed Morrissey Sep 02, 2021 3:21 PM ET

In other words, Jim Webb’s warning from earlier this week has become prophecy. An anonymous administration official told Reuters that no one should expect any accountability from within the White House over Joe Biden’s catastrophic retreat from Afghanistan and abandonment of American citizens, legal permanent residents, and Afghan allies to the Taliban. Firing anyone would contradict Biden’s bizarre declaration of victory from earlier this week:

    White House officials told Reuters that firings have not been discussed, but the administration expects Congress to aggressively investigate the turbulent exit from Afghanistan in hearings.

    One Biden administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said any dismissal would be seen as a tacit admission that the president had erred in removing troops unconditionally from the South Asian nation.

That’s not going to fool too many people, especially with the constant drip-drip-drip of reporting on Americans still stuck in Afghanistan. The White House may hope that the national media will tamp down that reporting to allow the Biden administration to move on to its domestic agenda, leaving stranded Americans without even a platform for efforts to get back to the US. In fact, Jim Geraghty thinks that effort has already begun:

https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1433423804164759561

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[christian]

Some mighty frightened people calling back home, on talk radio, abandoned-stranded.  Remember, this sure is better than Trump in office, eh?