TRUMP TEAM COMPILES A LIST OF POSSIBLE COURT MARTIAL CANDIDATES FOR “DISRESPECTFUL” AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL

Sun 17 November 2024:

The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly compiling a list of former and current senior US military officers directly involved in the “disrespectful” withdrawal from Afghanistan to determine whether they could face court martial.

Trump’s team is exploring the possibility of forming a commission to investigate the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, NBC News reported on Sunday.

This effort would focus on identifying those directly involved in the decision-making process, examining how the withdrawal was executed, and determining whether military leaders could potentially face charges, including treason, the broadcaster said, citing a US official and a source familiar with the plans.

“They’re taking it very seriously,” the person with knowledge of the plan told NBC News, adding that Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotic and global threats, is helping to lead the effort.

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The US presence in Afghanistan, which began in October 2001, ended after 20 years with the withdrawal of American troops in 2021.

Republican lawmakers have blamed the Biden administration for the “failed” withdrawal and chaos at Kabul’s airport.

Former Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was badly wounded in the explosion, told a congressional hearing last month that the withdrawal “was a catastrophe” and “there was an inexcusable lack of accountability.”

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby credited U.S. forces for their actions in running the largest airborne evacuation of noncombatants in history during the chaos of Kabul’s fall.

“They ended our nation’s longest war,” he told reporters. “That was never going to be an easy thing to do. And as the president himself has said, it was never going to be low grade or low risk or low cost.”

Since the U.S. withdrawal, Biden has blamed the February 2020 agreement Trump reached with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, saying it boxed the U.S. into leaving the country. The agreement gave the Taliban significant legitimacy and has been blamed by analysts for undercutting the U.S.-backed government, which would collapse so quickly a year later.

But the agreement also gave the U.S. the right to withdraw from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed — which they did.

The agreement required the U.S. to remove all forces by May 1, 2021. Biden pushed a full withdrawal to September but declined to delay further, saying it would prolong a war that had long needed to end.

Former President Trump blames the Biden-Harris White House for the collapse of Afghanistan and the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

It was a dangerous and chaotic exit. Thirteen troops and many, many Afghan civilians died. Former President Trump has laid the blame squarely on President Joe Biden and presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Trump said, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden – the humiliation in Afghanistan set off the collapse of American credibility and respect all around the world.

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