Paul McLeary
President Donald Trump, in a continued effort to replace Pentagon officials, hinted his administration would fire the military leaders involved in the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“They’re going to be largely gone,” he said Wednesday during his first cabinet meeting, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by his side. “I’m not going to tell this man what to do,” he said, turning to Hegseth. “But I will say that if I had his place, I’d fire every single one of them.”
Former President Joe Biden ordered the American military to quickly evacuate in August 2021 after the Taliban overran the Afghan army and poured into the capital, Kabul. Dozens of U.S. military transport planes ferried panicked Afghan allies out. A suicide bomb killed 13 service members and about 170 Afghan civilians, only making the chaotic scene at the airport worse.
The withdrawal was the culmination of plans to reduce the military’s presence in Afghanistan, which the first Trump administration launched after negotiations with the Taliban.
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