Senate Republicans probe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, identify planning failures
By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times - Friday, February 4, 2022
A new Republican report outlines President Biden’s missteps and what it describes as a “failure of leadership” during the drawdown from Afghanistan that left thousands of American citizens and Afghan partners stranded.
The report by Sen. James E. Risch of Idaho, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, details how Mr. Biden failed to plan for worst-case scenarios, ignored intelligence reports and put U.S. credibility on the line for years to come.
“While there is substantial disagreement about the policy to leave Afghanistan, Americans share outrage over how the United States withdrew last August, and what that failure has done to America’s standing in the world,” Mr. Risch said. “My report describes how the Biden Administration’s failure of duty allowed for a quick Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a botched withdrawal that left hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan partners behind.”
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