Pete Hegseth made one promise that left Joe Biden shaking in his boots
Pete Hegseth’s mission is to do right by America’s warfighters.
He’s going to right one terrible wrong.
And Pete Hegseth made one promise that left Joe Biden shaking in his boots.
Pete Hegseth vows to review Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
President Donald Trump held the first cabinet meeting of his second term.
He gave Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth the green light to investigate former President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A reporter asked Trump and Hegseth if there were any plans to fire Generals who were involved in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
“They’re going to be largely gone,” Trump said of the Generals.
“I’m not going to tell this man what to do,” Trump said while looking at Hegseth. “But I will say that if I had his place, I’d fire every single one of them.”
Biden botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan from beginning to end.
He ignored the warning signs on the ground that the country was on the verge of collapsing.
The Biden administration then entrusted Afghans to handle security at the Kabul Airport where an ISIS suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. soldiers at the Abbey Gate entrance.
“That’s a question we’ve thought a lot about,” Hegseth said. “We’re doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability. It’s one of the first things we announced to the Defense Department for that reason, Sir.”
Biden didn’t fire a single member of his administration or the military after the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“So we’re taking a very different view, obviously, than the previous administration,” Hegseth added. “And there will be full accountability.”
The investigation into Afghanistan is already underway
Hegseth previously told Breitbart News in an interview that he already has investigators at the Pentagon looking into the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“We’ve already identified folks that’ll be in charge of that full investigation inside the Pentagon,” Hegseth said. “I don’t have a timeframe on it. Sadly, we’ve already waited two-and-a-half years, three years since what occurred. I don’t want to wait longer, but I always want to get it right.”
He promised to dig down into the decision-making of one of the worst foreign debacles in American history.
“The way you establish real accountability is by establishing real fact chains — chains of events, information, what happened. Why did it happen? Who made the decision? What was the reason they made that decision? Why did they give advice or not give advice? Why did they execute an order a certain way. Did they speak up when they were supposed to or not? I don’t think there’s anybody that feels like there’s been an honest accounting of what happened in Afghanistan. That’s our job,” Hegseth explained.
Hegseth wants to reestablish trust and accountability at the Department of Defense that were lost during the previous administration.
A full accounting of what happened during Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that cost the lives of 13 American soldiers would go a long way toward that end.
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