By The New York Post Editorial Board
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby accidentally told the truth about the Biden-Harris view of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal: When members of the arms forces criticize you, arrogantly double down.
“Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,” smirked Kirby in a note he accidentally cc’d a reporter on, referring to criticism from four veterans slamming the flack and his bosses.
This is the attitude taken by a White House that utterly botched our withdrawal from a key geostrategic hotspot.
By a cadre of political careerists who let Afghanistan fall to a bloodthirsty terrorist enemy and saw 13 service members killed in a terrorist attack on Kabul airport.
No use in responding. Pathetic.
And it’s only appropriate that Kirby would blow himself up like this via a mistaken “Reply all” — the story of administration incompetence in a nutshell.
Kirby’s boss, Joe Biden, has displayed an identical callousness.
Checking his watch during the ceremony for the soldiers his failed policies got killed.
Keeping the families of those honored dead at a distance.
Insanely blaming his predecessor Donald Trump for the carnage he himself caused.
Kirby’s plainly rattled by the House Foreign Services Committee’s release of a damning, 350-page report on the catastrophe, the result of a multi-year probe, that places blame squarely on the shoulders of the president he serves.
But the correct response would be chastened humility — not cold, partisan indifference to the human costs of Biden’s failure.
Full op-ed over at The New York Post:
John Kirby tells the truth on Afghanistan failure: For Biden-Harris, dead soldiers mean nothing https://t.co/eQzR05YjMt pic.twitter.com/0jB3nBei49
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) September 12, 2024
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