WASHINGTON: Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee threatened on Tuesday to paralyze the Lloyd Austin defense secretary and other officials if needed to get their testimony of US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“The accounting full of US responses to this crisis is incomplete without the Pentagon – especially when it comes to understanding the total collapse of the Afghan military trained and funded by US,” said Democratic Senator Bob Menendez at the second congress session in two days with a testimony of the State Secretary Antony Blinken.
“I hope that Secretary (Austin) will use himself to the committee in the near future.
If he does not, I can consider the use of the power of Subpoena Committee to force him and another for the past twenty years to testify” said Mendez.
Members of Parliament – Democrats President Joe Biden and Republicans – Burning Blinken with questions and criticisms about the final last month to the longest war of America and why the government did not delay to evacuate more people.
Menendez called the withdrawal of “fatal flaw.” Blinken said US officials did not expect the increase in Taliban lightning and “the collapse of 11 days” Afghan forces supported by the US.
“That’s what changes everything,” Blinken said.
He said the government had urged plans to US-supported Afghan security forces to defend big cities.
“The plan is …
never formed,” Blinken said, adding that the former Afghan government did not want to look up on any part of the country.
Senator Jim Risch, Republican Party of Committee, said he was worried that the administration was trying to normalize relations with the Taliban and called plans to restart humanitarian aid as “in a deep time.” He described the militant group as “one of the best armed terrorist organizations on the planet,” now controlling military equipment left by US forces.
“There isn’t enough lipstick in the world to put this pig to make it look different from what really is,” Risch said.