The Rhode Island Democrat issued a statement late Monday that explained the hearings should occur at the appropriate time. He explained the focus at the moment should be justly on "safely evacuating U.S. citizens and Afghans who aided us."
President Biden gave a speech earlier Monday and advised that the withdrawal debacle was the result of the peace deal he inherited from former President Trump. He further put some blame on the Afghan army for lacking the "will to fight." The U.S. has been in the nation for almost two decades and the swift fall of Kabul raised new questions regarding the effort.
Still, Biden conceded mistakes in the withdrawal, including the slow pace of evacuations of American embassy staff and Afghans seeking asylum in the United States. He accused both Afghan politicians and security forces of not putting up more of a fight against the Taliban advance.
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“It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan’s own armed forces would not,” he said.
But many Republican lawmakers, including Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., pointed to Biden’s decisions as the tipping point for Afghanistan.
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“President Biden is focused only on politically justifying his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan — the same decision that has trapped thousands of American citizens and Afghan partners who are now trying desperately to get out,” Inhofe said in a statement. “To be clear, the responsibility for the frantic evacuation lies solely with the president.”
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Afghanistan erupted into disarray as the Taliban swept across the nation in recent days, seizing the capital of Kabul this weekend as the United States has been trying to withdraw its forces, diplomats, allies, and Afghans who worked with the coalition over the course of the 20-year war.
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Reed announced in his statement that he is "deeply concerned" about the humanitarian crisis in the nation. His statement further offered up some of his early theories about what went wrong.
He pointed to a "disastrous pivot to a war of choice in Iraq, a failure to have an effective policy to deal with a duplicitous Pakistan, a failure of mission creep from counter-terrorism; and a lack of ability to build an effective Afghan government and security forces."
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"These failures were compounded by the failures of the Doha agreement by President Trump which won the United States very little, and failures of intelligence, diplomacy and a lack of imagination as we transitioned military forces from the country," he announced. "This is not a Democratic or a Republican problem. These failures have been manifesting over four presidential administrations of both political parties."
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