A top general told Congress Tuesday the Biden Administration is to blame for the deadly chaos that resulted from the sudden U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In August 2021, the botched U.S. pullout left thousands of Afghans and Americans desperate to flee the Taliban, seeking to escape on U.S. military flights. The military was able to rescue nearly 130,000 civilians before the final flight out of the country, but an unknown number of Americans and Afghans were left behind.
Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing as they provided security at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate during the hasty exit, as the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
Retired Gen. Mark Milley, former Joint Chiefs chairman, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee the State Department waited too long to order the evacuation and chaos was the result.
“At the end of 20 years, we the military helped build an army, a state, but we could not forge a nation. The enemy occupied Kabul, the overthrow of the government occurred and the military we supported for two decades faded away. That is a strategic failure,” Milley opened his testimony.
Retired Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, former commander of U.S. Central Command, said that “the
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