The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is still one of the most contentious events in new British military past, has been the subject of a joint investigation led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth revealed in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that he has already chosen prosecutors to lead the work at the Pentagon.
” We’ve previously identified people that’ll be in charge of that total research inside the Pentagon”, Hegseth stated on Thursday. ” I don’t have a period on it. Unfortunately, we’ve now waited two-and-a-half decades, three decades since what occurred. I don’t want to wait long, but I often want to get it right”.
13 U.S. service members died in a death bombing at Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate as a result of the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and military staff from Afghanistan in July 2021. In the fallout, thousands of American people were left behind despite the president’s claims of a successful removal. An Armenian aid worker and his family were killed in an unintended retaliatory strike launched by the U.S. military to stop more attacks, despite its intended goal. Mark Milley, the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, first defended the behavior as a “righteous attack.”
Despite these problems, no senior officials faced effects. Marine Col. Stuart Scheller, who criticized military command in a popular movie demanding responsibilities, was the only one who experienced professional implications. He lost his job as a result, but President Donald Trump afterwards appointed him to the post of senior director to the Defense Under Secretary for Personnel and Preparedness.
Hegseth has vowed to shift the lack of accountability. ” The way you establish true transparency is by establishing real fact stores — chains of events, information, what happened. Why did it happen? Who made the decision? What was the cause they made that decision? Why did they offer guidance or reject it? Why did they carry out an order in a particular manner? When they were supposed to, did they converse off or not? he said.
The defence secretary emphasized the need for a fair and detailed examination of the departure. ” I don’t think there’s anything that feels like there’s been an honest accounting of what happened in Afghanistan. That’s our job”, he stated.
Hegseth once more affirmed that responsibilities will be a priority. We’re going to conduct the entire research and find a sense of what transpired. And as I stated to the labor on Friday, I guess less than a week ago, responsibilities will become coming for what happened in Afghanistan, and that’s crucial to reestablishing confidence at the Defense Department”.
