Secretary of State Antony Blinken has appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to face questions for the last time regarding some of the darkest moments of President Joe Biden’s presidency: the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken appears before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan , at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to face questions for the last time about some of the darkest moments of Joe Biden ’s presidency: the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan .
The hearing comes at the twilight of Blinken’s diplomatic career, with only weeks left before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, and at the end of the chairmanship of Rep. Michael McCaul, who will no longer lead the committee in the next Congress. It’s the capstone to nearly four years of animosity between the two men over the end of America’s longest war.
“This catastrophic event was the beginning of a failed foreign policy that lit the world on fire,” McCaul, a Texas Republican, said in his opening statement. “I welcome your testimony today and hope you use this opportunity to take accountability for the disastrous withdrawal.” Blinken was expected to defend the decision to withdraw U.S. troops in August 2021 .He said previously that the Biden administration was “severely constrained” by Trump’s decisions and those of previous presidents.Middle East latest: Israeli strike on home in northern Gaza kills 19 people, Palestinian medics sayBiden’s administration
The Republican-led review laid out the final months of military and civilian failures, following Trump’s February 2020 withdrawal deal, that allowed America’s fundamentalist Taliban enemy to sweep through and conquer all of the country even before the last U.S. officials flew out on Aug. 30, 2021.
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