Democrats and Republicans disagree over the blame for the disaster of leaving Afghanistan
The Democrats of the US House of Representatives accused the Republicans of “politicizing” this issue after the publication of the research report on the disastrous withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan in 2021.
According to Isna, on Monday, a 350-page report by Michael McCall, the Republican chairman of the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, was published on a three-year Republican investigation into the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan. Following the publication of this report, the Democrats of this committee also published a report on Monday on the subject of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, condemning what they considered to be the “politics” of the Republicans.
According to the Sputnik News agency, Gregory Meeks, the senior Democratic member of this committee, wrote in an open letter to his fellow Democrats, which was attached to the Democrats’ report: “I have long expressed my concerns about the efforts of the Republicans to politicize the withdrawal of the United States from I have expressed Afghanistan.
In this letter, Meeks concluded that the Republicans, who in their report criticized the management of the US President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, his deputy, on the implementation of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, did nothing but protest the fact that Biden only kept his promise. They acted to mark this departure and made themselves the last commander-in-chief of the American forces for this longest war in the history of this country, but they did not do it.
The Democratic report on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 acknowledged that this withdrawal took place in a chaotic manner, but emphasized that the initiator of this chaotic process was the administration of “Donald Trump”, the former president, who agreed with the Taliban on this withdrawal. had done, has been
The Democrats accused the Republicans of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives of trying to make the withdrawal from Afghanistan a “full-scale disaster of enormous proportions” for which the Biden administration is fully responsible.
In a separate statement, Joe Biden’s State Department said in response to the Republican report: “The agreement the Trump administration made with the Taliban to withdraw all remaining American forces from Afghanistan by May 1, 2021 was a flawed agreement.”
The ministry also noted in its statement that Joe Biden inherited such a flawed agreement that Trump made with the Taliban in February 2020.
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