President Donald Trump remain 2,500 soldiers are stationed in Afghanistan. But when Joe Biden came in, he was prohibited by federal regulations from using funds in the Department of Defense budget to reduce the number of people to less than 2,000, “without first reporting to Congress the expected impact on U.S. counter-terrorism operations and the risks to U.S. personnel” and providing details Report, According to the Liberty Lighthouse.
He was asked to report on the risks of the Islamic State, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, the expansion of terrorism, and the ability of the Afghan security forces to respond to all of them.
Of course, Biden did reduce the number of troops to below zero—and gave up his authorization to brief Congress in June, because this is important to national security interests. Some “authorization”, if he can give up. If he had not done so, they could have talked about all the risks of terrorism, if it was not clear before, it must be clear now-thousands of ISIS-K fighters have been released from Bagram. Not to mention Al-Qaida and Haqqani, and the Taliban themselves.
In addition, he must make an honest assessment of the Afghan army. Compliance with the law will be in the interest of national security, rather than blow it away. Why should he brag—unless he knows that he cannot justify the decision?
“If we have the answers to these questions, we may not fall into the terrible collapse we are now in,” said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center for Defense of Democracy’s Center for Military and Political Power, in April. Write this decree And the possibility that the government is trying to avoid it.
Bowman said: “I think the fact that they used the national security immunity to refuse to answer these questions during the day tells me that their answers cannot stand scrutiny.”
Representative Claudia Tenney, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, said the government is responsible for concealing this information from Congress.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that President Biden has never made a plan for a safe withdrawal from Afghanistan, so it is not surprising that he has never shared this plan with Congress as required by law,” Tanney said. “As we strive to complete the critical task of bringing home every American and Afghan ally, we must also urgently demand answers and accountability. I called the speaker. [Nancy] Pelosi will immediately begin impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives to determine how this crisis turned into a disaster and hold Biden responsible for his leadership failure. “
A congressional aide said that Biden ignored local conditions.
“In spite of the military’s advice, [intelligence community]And our diplomats—as evidenced by the dissent telegram—the Biden administration continues to rush towards the exit blindly, regardless of the consequences,” the aide said. “Except for the downfall of the Afghan government and the humanitarian disaster at the airport, we are now I saw the long-term effects of this hasty evacuation, including new terrorist threats to American interests, the proliferation of captured equipment, and the loss of the hard-won rights of Afghan women and girls. “
Therefore, he not only messed up the process of withdrawal, but actually actively prevented people from understanding the truth about how big problems his actions would ultimately be. How bad that is.
