In a new report, Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee detailed alleged missteps and misleading claims from the State Department and the White House about the Afghanistan withdrawal and vowed investigations into the issue if the GOP regains the House in November.
After 20 years of fighting the Taliban terrorist group in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden decided early into his presidency to carry out a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.
Despite calls from both parties to extend the time window for the withdrawal, Biden—who critics say was desperate to be out of the country by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks—moved ahead anyway. As the United States pulled back, Taliban forces swept over the nation, prompting harried and in some cases deadly efforts by Afghans to flee the nation….