Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that plans are already in progress to investigate President Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
🚨 #BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is launching an investigation into Biden’s god-awful withdraw from Afghanistan
ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING!
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During Biden’s horrifically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, an ISIS bombing attack at the Abbey Gate of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26, 2021, caused the deaths of 13 American soldiers and 170 Afghan civilians. Rather than conduct a properly strategic withdrawal, the Biden administration had the U.S. military flee the country, leaving Americans and U.S. allies stranded with the Taliban immediately retaking the country. They also left behind billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment that was seized by Taliban terrorists.
Americans were rightfully outraged over the Biden administration’s failures, with some commentators like Tucker Carlson and Tim Pool even suggesting that the withdrawal was botched on purpose to “justify future engagements.”
Speaking with Breitbart News, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explained that he had already selected the team to handle the investigation into Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal and was planning to start the probe as soon as he was certain that things would be done correctly.
“We’ve already identified folks that’ll be in charge of that full investigation inside the Pentagon,” Hegseth explained, adding: “I don’t have a timeframe on it. Sadly, we’ve already waited two-and-a-half years, three years since what occurred. I don’t want to wait longer, but I always want to get it right.”
The defense secretary then explained that he believes a full investigation is necessary to bring back accountability and restore Americans’ faith in the U.S. military. According to Hegseth, that full investigation will involve looking into the decisions to pull troops out before civilians, shutter Bagram Air Base instead of using the much easier-to-defend base, and leave behind billions of dollars in military equipment.
“The way you establish real accountability is by establishing real fact chains — chains of events, information, what happened,” Hegseth said. “Why did it happen? Who made the decision? What was the reason they made that decision? Why did they give advice or not give advice? Why did they execute an order a certain way? Did they speak up when they were supposed to or not? I don’t think there’s anybody that feels like there’s been an honest accounting of what happened in Afghanistan. That’s our job.”
“So, we’re going to drive that full investigation and get a sense of what happened. And as I stated to the workforce on Friday, I guess less than a week ago, accountability will be coming for what happened in Afghanistan, and that’s important to reestablishing trust at the Defense Department,” he concluded.
