Biden tries to stop investigation of his Afghan bug-out

 Washington Examiner:

President Joe Biden’s aides are reportedly far more worried about the GOP examining his Afghanistan withdrawal than any sort of investigation into Hunter Biden. It isn’t hard to see why.

Joe Biden’s aides are worried about House Republicans leading committee investigations and wielding subpoena power to look into Biden’s handling of the withdrawal because they can’t dismiss it as a partisan witch hunt — the way they have and will with any examination of Hunter Biden’s business ties. It is not without reason that the president's approval rating tanked during the withdrawal and has never recovered.

Joe Biden repeatedly assured Americans that Afghanistan would not fall to the Taliban, and then it immediately did. He left Afghan translators, who helped American soldiers for years, to their fate with the Taliban. He stranded hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan after giving them conflicting messages that they should evacuate, but also that the Taliban wouldn’t take over. Afghans attempting to flee Taliban control clung to, and fell from, planes that were evacuating Americans.

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 Would any other president have then, in retaliation for the suicide bombing, conducted a drone strike against an Afghan aid worker with no discernible terrorist ties? Would any other president have sent Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley out to call it a “righteous strike,” even though the Pentagon knew within hours that they killed a civilian?

More specifically, Biden and company massacred 10 civilians, including seven children, in retaliation for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops. Was this inevitable, as the Biden administration and Murphy claim?

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It was one of the biggest foreign policy debacles in history and I have argued that the weakness shown by Biden to the Taliban led the Russians to believe they could get away with invading Ukraine.  It was a historic mistake that we are still feeling the consequences of.  An investigation of the Afghan decision is an imperative.

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