Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: ‘No regrets’ over chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
Mr. Banks said retired Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie, who led U.S. Central Command at the time, has said he had many regrets about how U.S. involvement in“I support [President Biden’s] decision. I don’t have any regrets,” the defense secretary replied.In August 2022, General McKenzie told NPR that they got more than 120,000 people out of. While he called those figures part of a “good news story,” it didn’t change the fact that a number of Afghans who worked closely with U.S.
“They had every expectation that we would bring them out. We did not, and we were unable to do that,” Gen. McKenzie said. “That’s something that … still haunts me to this day.” GOP lawmakers also criticized what they said was a lack of accountability among civilian or military leaders for how the withdrawal played out. Mr. Banks asked what would happen to a Navy captain of a ship that runs aground.Asked if anyone in the Pentagon’s chain of command was ever held accountable for the collapse of the 20-year war effort in
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