Sen. Katie Britt has joined a growing group of legislators condemning the National Security Council’s recent review of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
The withdrawal, ordered by the Biden administration, faced serious scrutiny after 13 American service members died in a Kabul suicide bombing as American military personnel were in the process of departing the country.
“The Biden Administration’s statement today on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan is an insult to the 13 courageous American service members who lost their lives on August 26, 2021, in Kabul,” said Britt (R-Montgomery). “After 18 months, President Biden wants to leave the American people with no transparency, no accountability, and no lessons learned – this is no way to move forward.”
She said the event was a global embarrassment and the Biden administration isn’t owning up to its significant failures.
“Not only was the Biden administration’s withdrawal a fatal calamity, it was also a historic embarrassment that projected weakness across the globe, emboldening our adversaries, alienating our allies, and setting our national security back years,” Britt said. “This president refuses to take responsibility for his failures, which only makes it more likely that they will be repeated in the future.”
Britt also called out the administration’s attempts to shift blame to former President Trump.
“Attempting to deflect the blame to the previous administration is brazenly putting politics above getting real answers,” she said. “The American people deserve better.”
Britt voted last week for a measure that would have established a congressional Joint Select Committee on Afghanistan to investigate the U.S. withdrawal from that country.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.
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