The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold its first hearing Wednesday morning on what Republicans are calling the Biden administration’s “stunning failure” of leadership du…
to fly US citizens and Afghans out of the war-torn country — leading to a suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and 170 civilians as the military scrambled to remain in control of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Rep. Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is holding a hearing on the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan.Now under Taliban rule, Afghanistan has become an economic disaster, with rampant food shortages, and the country has reverted to its previous oppressive treatment of women and girls.
“What happened in Afghanistan was a systemic breakdown of the federal government at every level – and a stunning failure of leadership by the Biden administration. As a result, the world watched heartbreaking scenes unfold in and around the Kabul airport,” McCaul said in a
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