House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer held a hearing Wednesday on the deadly Afghan withdrawal that left 13 American troops dead and many more fellow citizens stranded behind enemy lines.
Comer invited four key Inspectors General to testify about the factors and decisions that led to the deadly collapse as well as the continued risks to U.S. taxpayer dollars going to Afghanistan.
“Americans watched as people so desperate to flee clung to the landing gear of airplanes taking off and fell from the sky when the planes did not stop. Americans watched as parents handed their infants over to U.S. soldiers,” Comer said in his opening statement. “And they watched as billions of dollars of U.S. equipment—trucks, aircraft, weaponry—was just abandoned to the Taliban.”
“Today, the Taliban flag flies over Kabul…This is Joe Biden’s legacy,” Comer added. “The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has consequences that will not go away overnight, despite the Biden Administration’s hope that the American people will forget.”
