House holds hearing on U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan | full video
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2023
- A House panel held a hearing Thursday to discuss the Biden administration's preparation for the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The GOP-controlled House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability heard testimony from retired Col. Seth Krummrich, former chief staff of the U.S. Special Operations Command Central, and Army Command Sgt. Major Jacob Smith.
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Any part of this that isnt political theater? Where are the factual military testimony that says where we went wrong? The specifics. Not this emotional garbage.
This is all the MAGA Trumpublicans can do, period.
Trump folded the Afghan Republic like a business. Shut down all the bases, stop air support, supply, they destroy our communication. Americans took the keys to the cars and we could not travel to Bagram. Biden gives money to Talibs today.
Best thing to do is not sign yourself up and fight for those corrupt politicians
Amen. Don't sign up to give your life for a country that counts you as a number and a talking point for politicians and sometimes mention your name 2 holidays a year.
NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD AGREE. BACK IN 82' IT WAS DIFFERENT. WOULD NOT SIGN UP NOW
We REALLY need to clean house. It’s worse than a swamp. It’s quicksand where people & problems simply disappear. 😢😢
Like Israel.
@@bennysoda4101 wow no the best thing to do is actually deliberate and not just listen to the corporate news . So don't feel defeated.
We need hearings on the illegal US invasion of Afghanistan, not the withdrawal.
After 20 years, stuck in a quagmire, dude, (Navy Seal), the U.S. had to get out.! Trying to plan for the unknown is frigging impossible!
Thank you for your service and I really mean this, for me when Trump released 5000 criminals back to the Taliban, he actually invited the Taliban to camp David! What a traitor to our country
@@laurabealmear9293lol he's not a seal
This makes the withdrawal from Saigon in 1975 look organized, safe and well-executed.
Because it was
Yes
It was but Joe was in office one day and trump left this all up in the air because he thought his coup would work. This can’t be blamed on Joe.
You obviously weren't around for that one or you would know the withdrawal from Saigon was much worse. I can't imagine how ugly it would have been if USA citizens had been there and waited for the day of the withdrawal to try and get out.
@@D4L_457Millions of people disagree with you. Brandon is the new sheriff in town, and he could have told them that we'll leave when we're ready. He cancelled practically all of Trump's other policies. He could have postponed this exit.
The number of empty chairs speaks volumes.
We fought and still fight in Panjshir. We had no ammunitions, communication and water. We used our phones and Facebook for command. Then Facebook block our profiles for hate speech and no more commands could be given.
Seriously holy heck you can be tracked down by gps.oh my word never use your phone..lord..take the battery out. They can turn it on. If you don't..
@@wytrose4602 we move to new cities.
God bless all our brothers and sisters in uniform including their families.
When their country called on them, service rightfully was answered with duty.
"Too bad" is a huge understatement of the reality. The blatant ignorance and assumed arrogance of this incompetent so called President caused the death of many. He should be held accountable for the losses. His goal was to hit a deadline rather than safely and methodically remove US involvement using the highest level of intelligence available. biden politics and his own history of failure and 'need' for power produced this disastrous result that will forever haunt America. @bennysoda4101
The suites totally let the Boots down on that Aug day!
I can't listen to Crow anymore... God Bless the Gold Star Families♥️🇺🇸🌹
HOW many congressman are suppose to be on this committee, It looks like like 6 people there.
My heart is broken
@@hastalavista723please say what you're laughing at......
He left those weapons on purpose under direction from China
One minute in and Mr Mast has paid more respect to the service members/families then biden did in the last 2 years since this happened
Trump was all in on getting the troops out before he got out of office...he failed...Biden did not have the political courage to put troops back in to do and orderly withdraw.....
By doing this performative speech?
Partisan theater does not honor anyone. Using dead bodies for political agendas shows an utter disrespect for those who passed.
We need to demand that we stop using our military as political props. Something Obama and Trump are guilty of.
When Obama was setting a deadline all these same people were saying "you don't tell your enemy when you're leaving" now that the enemy wasn't told the US was leaving they say "you left too fast". This is all nonsense.
wrong, turn the channel
@vinny...2280; You're wrong, Mr. Mast paid more respects than biden has in his whole life time
Leaving Afghanistan was going to be horrible no matter who was in charge.
Exactly shouldn’t have been on that soil In the first place
Agreed, however proper planning could've made it much less than it turned out to be.
No it wouldn't if we had proper leadership and direction then this would've never happened and our 13 would be 0
You can't prove a negative
@@ScttTee
@@yung_megafoneproper planning? Like having a plan to leave before agreeing to? Hrmm, wonder whos responsibility that might be.
Hindsight is 20/20, but everyone knew this was a terrible and chaotic idea the moment they announced it. How they haven't had to answer for it and apologize for such a royal failure and loss of life is beyond me. I know we don't like to admit our mistakes because we are America and it makes us look weak, but that is the least of our problems at this point
this surrender, and ALL the LEFTIST controlling everything; is an international failure.
Seeing the video of the horrific withdrawal says it all. It was extremely poorly executed. If this ever happened during the Korean war, I would have been angry and being a Korean, we tend to hold our grudges until we explode. Enough is enough when it comes to ruining innocent lives for political reasons 😡
Wish you knew the full story of this operation. Trust me
This is so difficult for me to watch. If it weren’t for the military in Korea, I would have died at a young age. I know the military personnel took advantage of Koreans but they allowed orphans to be free to be adopted worldwide so we could be free. If everyone only knew how much we endured before being adopted, they would truly appreciate their freedom 🥲
Thank you for sharing your story with us. I’m sorry to hear about the struggle you had in Korea. I truly wish that could’ve been a better experience for you! I am grateful you are now able to experience freedom. You are beautiful, and I wish you the very best in your endeavors!
1,448 US soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam. WE Lost 13 the last day of Afghanistan. Both were evacuations at end of war with those countries.
God bless America.Thank you for the sacrifice of your loved ones.I am humbled and honored by your children ,granchildren,husbands wives,brothers,sisters,nieces,nephews,cousins,friends loved ones who laid down their lives for all Americans.The ultimate gift to humanity to continue cherishing the values of FREEDOM and LIBERTY ,we must acknowledge and revere our HEROES.The AMERICAN PATRIOTS who died for our privileges are to be celebrated their lives are important,meaningful and respected.God bless them and their loved ones.I do not know any of these PATRIOTS personally but I live my life in this wonderful country because of their service I take their sacrifice very seriously.We live because they died serving our country.They will never be forgotten so help me God.
You forgot the dogs....
Amen 🙏. Freedom is a precious commodity which so many Americans could never fathom because they’ve never endured what we had to endure without showing any emotion.
This is worth listening to
Then you have the wounded warrior program taking care of our soldiers, instead of a military va hospitals. programs
Bush 1 and 2 started this war.
Keep up, turned out Wounded Warriors was a scam. Haven't you noticed you don't see their ads everywhere anymore and you don't hear much about them either.
@@dixieporter2960 I know at first there was a former General that headed the program up. He was doing some good work but he was also paying himself quite a bit of money. When he was challenged on it he stepped down. The program went on for a while but that was the last I heard of it.
@kimhorton6109 Sounds right. I know I was disappointed because I donated to them. That was before every other commercial was one of theirs. When a nonprofit runs that many commercials, it's a safe bet it's a scam.
The same thing happened when we left Viet Nam, brother. War is sloppy far too often. But the Largest question, is: Why aren’t we working 24/7, to sit down to negotiate PEACE, throughout the world ? (Because THAT is what everyone in the world MUST DO !!)
YEP, NO PLAN JUST HASTE
1,448 US soldiers were killed on the last day in Vietnam.
Trump did that
Crow, Kim, and Dean doing their best to take the heat off of pass-the-buck Joe.
Like a domestic violence relationship when one person decides to leave it’s the most dangerous time…the lack of a proper plan in is shocking for most people. Not just America. We all paid a terrible price. This hearing is so important
DIAN: A PROPER MDMP MILITARY DECISION MAKING PLAN WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFE. NEVER LET SOLDIERS BE DEPLOYED UNDER STATE DEPARTMENT, THIS WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN
Its infuriating to see the utter disrespect for members of this committee when they look at their phones and not listen to people! I think all phones should be turned off !!!!
Theatre
"Brace yourself. The American Empire is over. And the descent is going to be [is] horrifying." -- Chris Hedges -- 'America: The Farewell Tour'
They had to leave all that Equipment there for the Beast Army. ( just as the did in Iraq & Lebanon )
BIDEN should be hed accountable to VIET NAM, and the other war he mentioned, but didn't include the helicopter evac
Terms of reference for this inquiry?
Oh I'm sorry, did you miss the whole video?
Thank you Air Force
Now stefonic is a military genius
Why all the blame game
were are the Generals , i would think they should be there to testify
Exactly cause it sounds like opens not facts.
The was the MAGAs thesewere the witnessess they hand picked, to serve their narritive as always at least this time they were not stupid enough to call them ''whistle-blowers'', but one was doing a pretty good book selling. Should have setup a table in the lobby.
@@D4L_457 do you mean opinions not facts
? yes that is a fact, you are correct.
The past century of war should never have happened
Who fcking idea was it to leave a company of soldiers behind?
The best thing a president has done but It should have happened earlier.
The politician that let the Taliban out of jail hopefully they get the orange baboon and his administration
I'm glad the investigation is still ongoing. Someone has to pay.
My stomach aches remembering that day. BIDEN IS TO BLAME! AND HE WAS WATCHING HIS WATCH WHILE SOLDIER'S BODIES WERE COMING HOME.
Yep
How does US plan to ditch Ukraine 🇺🇦?
It's even worse disaster than Afghanistan. US is planning without any diplomacy at all. Why?
Yes, this was a catastrophe... Yes, this was chaotic and a failure. It was a complete and total loss.
How come Tim Kennedy hasn't came in front of the committee to elaborate on the ngo missions he's been on to Afghanistan after the withdrawal in August of 2021 and has brought back over 17000 Americans on c17 planes he's using via private rich donors ?
Way to wait years to "investigate." Horrible and irrepressible to not address this sooner. Now the question is whether anything but talking about it will happen.
I’m the one who requested the leave
Why does the Americans think that its a good idea to invade a country change their laws and way of life to make it resembles the USA, when that all goes against the Afghan's ways of living and life and totally goes against the Afghan's culture and religion, the same goes with North Korea, Iraq, Syria etc
TEAMERICA , The World is in awe of your commitment to War
We are not in awe to americas commitment to war
@@skibbatrixadonanor to satire.
You left accordingly
The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal. the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership.
True dat.
sorry
Are these servicemen naming names, with intent to prosecute or
have them removed from service?
When I hear the pitiable excuses, and worse, blame a President, it sounds like a deliberate effort to not hold superior officers' dereliction of duty. Will they appear as witnesses?
Remember who released the taliban prisoners that the U.S. captured and imprisoned? Yea, that guy...former guy, the one who set this all into motion. Let's not forget!
@@studytoshowthyselfapprove8301
It's a very different thing. To cancel the forced agreement made by Pompeo under Trump, USA would have to send more than 15,000 troops back in order to retake every base that Obama and Trump left empty. This retake will include trillions of tax payers money who were mostly the same tax payers complaining that we are spending so much money in Afganistán for "gender studies" and "warmongering" to feed the military complex. Trump made it almost impossible to have at least a foothold to hold back. "Meanwhile US Defence Secretary Mark Esper was in the Afghan capital Kabul alongside Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani - whose government did not take part in the US-Taliban talks." If you really want a deal made to keep a pro American government as leaders why would you not sit down with both? Heck, why would you even sit down with terrorists at all if USA policy is that "we don't negotiate with terrorists. I agree that USA needs to get better at making more friends and less enemies. However, if you are set up for failure and have an impossible task at hand make the best of it even if you fail miserably in the end.
What's the end game?
Why is no one talking about the orders to stand down, to the snipers that could have stopped the bomber? Who ordered that? Who decided to give them millions in weapons? Temp has a plan and the haters wanted to do anything opposite of his plan just for spite! Sickening!
Can anyone tell me how that precipitous withdrawal was not treasonous? Anybody?
Christopher Kolenda need to be investigated!!!
Life that is lost on his watch I don't understand
The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.
And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership.
Who is it that released all those prisoners over There wasn’t it your buddy Trump
No helicopters
USA left Afghanistan in terrible shape to do the same in Ukraine... what a coincidence? NOT
54:10 MOST GANGSTER STATEMENT EVER. #ColtWasNeverHere
🦓🦓🦓🦓🙄🙄🙄🙄
Not our fault most afgans won't fight for there own country we didn't give it up the afgans gave up the moment we left
Finally. Hold Biden accountable for the devastating failure he is.
This will go nowhere lol!
Even if it’s on Joe it’s still not a crime. You better go get bush for Katrina then.
@@D4L_457 No country can trust America so they wont risk working and spying incase America just drops all those foreign people who translated gave info at risk of death, but did to be given citizenship or protection for helping, they were left to be murdered. No person will risk helping America ever again, they cant be trusted because of Biden, they see him weak and incabable why do you think Russia China etc no longer fear the US military, Biden is corrupt and many countries that are corrupt bought him and see him like their puppet. Trump was feared by them because he showed strength and was trustworthy.
This was all put in place b y Trump. He even admitted to doing this so Biden would look bad. Let's not forget that Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David on 9/11.
Hold a Eden accountable for Trump releasing 5000 Taliban from prison or negotiating. Without the elected government? For negotiating a leave time no one could comply with safely?
The President set a leave date that allowed people to leave before the inevitable chaos. They didn’t heed the call. Some couldn’t for financial reasons and their role in the insanity can be forgiven. Those who could have left made it worse for the rest because they felt entitled to special consideration.
Now the Taliban and ISIS are tightening the screws on the people of the country. That is the fault of the elected administration and the warlords who managed the conscription of what really wasn’t much of an armed force.
Appropriate word is a bloody nose my good man man
Our government stabbed us and friends that are Afghanis. Dead inside for anyone that was attached to this
the U.S. gov has been doing that since 1776
God bless our soldiers lost. This admin causes daily disasters intentionally done. They all need to be criminally charged. We had enough their criminals.
So did I I made the United States leave when I stepped in the stock market
CHAIRMAN you don't SWEAR THEM IN!!
Oh ms Titus stop
Stop voting for these politicians that are clueless!!!
WALTZ you should be ashamed using the Gold Star Families as a Political Stunt, it is unacceptable. WALTZ will be out of that seat in 5 minutes, opp he's all ready gone.
The president that we have in the office does not care at all he does not care none at all about anybody else's life
Where sre the bodies of the 13? They must get full military burial honors.
Chairman, "we're doing this non-partisan." Every MAGA, "BIDEN DID IT!"
He was commander in chief! Of course it was his fault!
Part of the agreement with the taliban was to acknowledge womens rights, allow them positions in governments and schools and jobs.
They were the ones that put forward paid academics…
only 3 or 4 congressman inthe room and this is a JOKE, be present, both sides, be present or pass on the appointments.
this is right after CRANE's sickness crap.
~50 people still die per day from old munitions and mines if the vietnam region :/
Depressing corruption.
U.S.A. needs Housecleaning on the INSIDE
Josh Cawley for Council on Foriegn Relstions clean ip on aisle 13
This hearing has a grounding in good policy. I hope it stays above board but it quickly devolves into accusations.
Let’s remember who’s schedule this happened under. Further, recall that the State Department sent out a notice to every registered citizen and sites where Americans were in Country saying when the withdrawal would happen and strongly suggested they leave as soon as possible. Almost no one heeded that call. This withdrawal was always going to be a mess.
The incident that cost 13 American lives at a side gate at the airport and more than 100 Afghan lives was a result of the mini war between the Afghan arm of ISIS and the Taliban. It was designed to smear the Taliban as much as to attack the USA. That attacker was released under an agreement the Former President’s crew who blocked the then Afghan Government from participation.
The US should have left Afghanistan ten years earlier than it did and not engaged in nation building. No one in the Afghan government was being honest about where US and allied money was going. Much of the stated army of Afghanistan existed only on paper. Maintenance on donated equipment was almost non existent. The Taliban now has piles of donated military equipment much of which is only good as scrap.
Sounds really familiar to a situation going on over in Ukraine rn
@ProdCuzzo Not in any way. We aren't doing the fighting and dying there. Ukrainians are doing their own defending. They didn't just role over for Russia.
@dixieporter2960 To claim "not in any way,"
covers a lot of, and too many, ways.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE SHOLD NOT EVER RUN MILITARY OPERATIONS
@skidancin Not in this case. For starters, the only reason we went into Afghanistan was to get Bin Laden. We were supposed to pull out as soon as we got him, but by that time, we were fully entrenched, and really didn’t do much to help us in that goal. Turned out that Bush just used Afghanistan as a jump off point for his real goal, Iraq. He thought his Daddy was wrong leaving Sadam in power. Sure enough, not listening to his Daddy led to ISLE. I never bought into his lies about weapons of mass destruction. We ended up with our boots on the ground fighting for 20 years.
Putin went into Ukraine as a jump off point to returning Russia to the USSR, and if Trump had won, he would probably have succeeded. His goals were a true threat to our allies and eventually our own country. We did not create a rallying point for Ukrainians to put up a fight against Putin's invasion. They were already fighting it when we stepped up and provided weapons they needed to keep fighting.
The only thing Afghanistan and Ukraine have in common is the fighting and dying, but that is true of every war, necessary or not.
The spokeswoman for the president does what she's supposed to do and that is to do what they tell her to say do you know that
Biden must be held accountable. Treason is the charge.
Air Force you mean
MORE THAN 13 DIED IN 22 YEARS..........THIS IS A POLITICAL HEARING SO SAD.
7,000 troops and $6 billion over 22 years.
❤ stephanik
You know what kills someone to have that much power and that much money do not have a heart on live Lowe's on his watch
Wow
Leave it to the Demcrats to blame President Trump when he wasn't in office at the time.
Well put in the opening statement chair! Not only did they not learn, they don't want to learn and they don't want anyone else to know. The nerve of joe to try and frame this as a positive. For what? Why? FJB.
The truth is finally coming out as the swamp is drained some more.
God bless these gold star families.
COME ON CONGRESSMAN!!! THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX NEEDS A NEW BOOGIE MAN!
I said to get you involved
Here are the facts this dude is ignoring. First, Biden extended the withdrawal date Trump negotiated by four months, giving US citizens five months to make arrangements to get out of Afghanistan. Instead of doing so, they chose to wait until the very last minute which contributed to a lot more chaos.
Trump had already withdrawn from all but one base. Staying would have required the retaking of those bases and cost a lot more lives of our military service members than we lost in the withdrawal. We were there 20 years and we provided military training to Afghanistan citizens and left them the equipment they needed to defeat the Taliban. The vast majority of Afghan military members decided to lay down their arms and hand the country over to the Taliban. That alone should tell us all that withdrawing from Afghanistan was the right decision.
Biden was advised numerous times by General Miller (RSM Commander) and General McKenzie (centcom commander) to not do a full withdrawal and to leave some boots on ground for a show of force. (2500 troops) He didn't listen and 13 service members lost their lives. General Miller and Gen McKenzie both testified under oath about their recommendations. If Biden would have listened those 13 service members would be alive today. These are the facts.
Milley & Austin both urged withdrawal before late June and all troops out of Afghanistan - speed = safety. They were overruled. The decision to handover Bagram before the troops were out was a catastrophic error.
Well I can agree with the second half of your last paragraph. God bless.
@@roypaulcarter4654 It is all accurate. Would you point out what you believe happened leading up to the withdrawal?
@@dixieporter2960 no it is not. And no I don’t think I would.
Great speech for such a empty house. But all the words no matter how sincere will not bring any of those poor people back or help the ones still alive over there that were left behind. Put your trust in God not any man especially the so called leaders of this country.
why they just cant leave its none of there buisness
And now the US will send 50k American-Afghanistan Employees aka Afghanistan Refugees abroad such as The Philippines all expenses paid that includes housing, hospitalizations, schools and securities for 4yrs without visas. The Philippines has no Embassy in Afghanistan so they'll be flown to Islamabad for the embassy assessments. That's what I heard from The Philippine Senate hearings. My questions is: Will this continue as planned? What will happen after 4yrs? The country are still suffering from leftist insurgencies for decades now and so the people don't want this. The people don't have any idea who these people are. This might create tensions or havoc and might disregard US Bases in the country again and the people don't want that to happen. Don't do this to the country... my country The Republic of the Philippines.
Edit: We are glad that The US are back, but please not with this one. Just a thought and opinion. Thank you.
Wish you all knew the truth of the full operation. I’ve keep quiet for a long time. It’s almost destroyed me but this is just a fraction of what is hidden. Trust me. I’d you want proof just ask
WOW, so they are going to ignore Trump's role he played in this whole ordeal. He was the one who set everything in motion. This whole trial is some BS if Trump's name is not also mentioned..
Biden didn’t follow trumps plan and negotiated terms. He was supposed to stick to the terms of the taliban negotiations. Not just run away like he did.
You are incorrect. You are echoing the lies of the msm media and have no idea what you are talking about. Be quiet.
Exactly they just want to blame the man who was in there for oneday. Why they not putting this much energy into the treasonous act of Jan 6.
Exactly. Remember when Trump invited the taliban to Camp David on 9/11?
Whose idea was the abdomen the airport ?
That was a strategic area to get everyone out safely.
The Biden administration abandoned it. Makes no sense at all.
take off for an townhall manager in holiday home mular or chieftain