Nikki Haley, ought to she turn out to be president, must appoint her husband as her chief army advisor.
He couldn’t do any worse than what now we have now.
He is South Carolina Army National Guard Maj. Michael Haley who’s presently deployed along with his unit in Africa in assist of the U.S. Africa Command. It is Haley’s second deployment, following the primary in Afghanistan in 2016.
If elected, President Haley may convey him house, make him a normal and depend on him to inform her and the American folks the reality.
That manner she and the American folks may a minimum of hope for some accountability surrounding President Joe Biden’s lethal, chaotic and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan two years in the past.
They are actually not getting it now. What they’re getting, as a substitute is a large coverup from Biden and the Pentagon. Their posture is that this stuff simply occur, you see, and no person is guilty, even because the nation observes the second anniversary of that catastrophe with no solutions.
Thirteen American service members—11 Marines, on Army soldier and one Navy medic—have been killed outdoors the Kabul Airport by a suicide bomber throughout Biden’s precipitous lower and run operation. The bomber may have been taken out earlier.
Former Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was wounded throughout the bombing, testified a yr in the past at a Congressional listening to that he and a fellow Marine noticed the suspected bomber outdoors the airport and requested permission to take him out.
The permission was denied, he mentioned. “Plain and simple, we were ignored.”
He added, “There was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence.”
The bomb went off.
“I see the faces of all those we could not save, those we left behind.”
At that point, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, promised solutions to the dad and mom and relations of these killed.
Milley mentioned, “We owe them transparency, we owe them honesty, we owe them accountability. We owe them the truth about what happened to their loved ones.”
Since then, there was no transparency, no honesty, no accountability and no reality. Nothing.
No one has been held accountable, not Biden, not Milley, not Secretary Defense Lloyd Austin, not Marine Corps commanding Gen Kenneth F. McKenzie, or the officer who denied permission to kill the bomber. Nobody.
Families of the women and men who have been killed on the airport appeared once more earlier than the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable final week searching for solutions however getting none.
They denounced Biden and his administration for the dearth of solutions to what occurred that day outdoors the Kabul Airport.
“We’ve been lied to about what happened that day, as well as what happened to our children,” Greg Page, the daddy of Marine Cpl. Daegan W. Page who was killed that day, mentioned.
Kelly Barnett, mom of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin Hooever, who was additionally killed, mentioned, “I don’t’ want to hear lies. I don’t want to hear excuses from Joe Biden, from the administration.”
Biden, calling the evacuation successful, is “like a knife in the heart for our families,” Christy Shamblin, mother-in-law of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee, who was killed, mentioned.
Steve Nikoui, father of slain Marine Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui mentioned that Biden ought to honor the 13 service members killed with a Rose Garden observance, which isn’t prone to occur.
Biden is placing as a lot distance between him and the occasion as he probably can.
Upon the primary anniversary of the bombing Biden issued a six-paragraph assertion which together with the names of all 13 service members who have been killed. He known as them heroes “working to save lives as part of the largest airlift evacuation operation in our history.”
On the second anniversary final Saturday, Biden’s second assertion was pared down to 3 paragraphs with no itemizing of the names. He mentioned these killed carried out a “noble” mission however didn’t even say what the mission was. Or who they have been.
Maybe he forgot.
Peter Lucas ais a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
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