Biden's Afghan collapse draws criticism

 Epoch Times:

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“Why is Joe Biden in hiding? He should immediately address the nation and answer for the catastrophic situation in Afghanistan. Conference calls between cabinet secretaries and senators don’t cut it in a crisis,” wrote Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who served tours in Afghanistan in the U.S. Army, on Twitter.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Biden is “gonna have blood on his hands” after the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the country, including Kabul, in only a few weeks. “They totally blew this one. They completely underestimated the strength of the Taliban,” said McCaul, the highest-ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Epoch Times has contacted the White House for comment.
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His (Biden's) recent comment, however, came in contrast to his speech several weeks ago, asserting that the U.S. pullout of the country is not comparable to the 1975 fall of Saigon that ended the Vietnam War and produced a number of enduring images of American embassy staff hastily leaving on helicopters.

Even several Democrat lawmakers criticized the Biden administration for how it handled the withdrawal. Biden weeks earlier announced that American forces would unconditionally depart the South Asian country after spending 20 years and trillions of dollars on the conflict.
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Added another Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas): “There’s no way to hide it. The situation in Afghanistan is another shame on this admin. Withdrawal was never going to be easy but it didn’t need to come to this.” He wrote, “The US must do everything in its power to help our partners & allies to safety & protect our national security.”

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former U.S. commander of Afghanistan, issued a blistering statement, arguing that the pullout and Taliban takeover is “an enormous national security setback” that will “get much worse.”

“In this case, the results cannot be sugar-coated… there was a saying that we occasionally used for really bad days and I said, ‘Look if it’s a really bad day in Baghdad or Kabul, just go out to the podium and say we had a terrible day.’ Don’t put lipstick on a pig. It undermines your credibility,” he added.
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This is a screw-up that Biden and military and intelligence services cannot hide.  They took too much comfort in the number of Afghan troops who turned out to be totally unreliable.  Why didn't the intelligence services and the American commanders know that?  Were they more interested in the pronouns of the troops than their character and will to fight?  Were US commanders too busy looking for the mythical white supremacist in this country to concentrate on their primary mission?  Congress should immediately begin looking into those responsible for this debacle from Biden on down the chain of command.