American Military News by Ryan Morgan August 15, 2022
A forthcoming report by Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee reveals new details on the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, including that President Joe Biden’s administration had no plan for handling the withdrawal.
In a Sunday interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) described the findings of the committee’s report, which is set to be released this week. McCaul, the committee’s ranking member, described a lack of U.S. planning before the Taliban seized control of the Afghan capital of Kabul. He also described a “disconnect” between military and intelligence assessments of the devolving situation in Afghanistan and the White House view at the time.
“There are many sins if you will,” McCaul told CBS Margaret Brennan. “There was a complete lack and failure to plan. There was no plan and it was — there was no plan executed.”
The U.S. military oversaw the evacuation of thousands of U.S. and western allied citizens and Afghan refugees through the Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) after Kabul fell under Taliban control on Aug. 15, 2021.
During the evacuation, viral videos emerged of Afghan citizens clinging to the sides of military transport aircraft trying to take off. At least two Afghans fell to their deaths as aircraft took off and another body was found in the landing gear well of a U.S. military transport aircraft.
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