According to reports, US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is assembling a list of senior US military personnel who were directly involved in the “disrespectful” pullout from Afghanistan, both past and present, in order to decide whether to subject them to court martial.
According to an NBC News story on Sunday, Trump’s administration is looking into the prospect of establishing a committee to look into the 2021 exit from Afghanistan.
According to the broadcaster, which cited a US official and a source familiar with the plans, this effort would concentrate on identifying those directly involved in the decision-making process, looking into how the withdrawal was carried out, and figuring out whether military leaders could possibly face charges, including treason.
The individual with knowledge of the plan told NBC News, “They’re taking it very seriously.” Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotic and global threats, is also assisting in leading the initiative.
After 20 years, the United States withdrew its soldiers from Afghanistan in 2021, ending its engagement there, which had started in October 2001.
As Biden attempted to reassure world leaders that “America is back” following former President Donald Trump’s turbulent first term in office, the frantic evacuation, which occurred weeks after Biden said the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan was not inevitable, damaged America’s reputation internationally.
The Biden administration has been held accountable by Republican senators for the chaos at Kabul’s airport and the “failed” pullout.
Along with both foreigners and natives, Afghanistan’s troubled president Ashraf Ghani fled the country in August 2021 as the Taliban advanced.
When the government collapsed, crowds crowded onto the airport in the Afghan capital, crowding the tarmac and pressing into planes in frantic attempts to escape the country, killing at least five people.
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