Washington-Sana
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, threatened today to call Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other officials to testify regarding the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I expect Secretary Austin to present himself to the committee in the near future," Reuters quoted Menendez as saying during a second session of Congress, where Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will testify, threatening to use the subpoena power of the committee to force him and others over the past 20 years to testify.
Without the Pentagon, the accountability for the United States' handling of this crisis would not be complete without the Pentagon, especially when it comes to explaining the complete collapse of the Afghan army, which was trained and funded by the United States, Menendez added.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers rained down on Blinken questions and criticism about the chaotic end of the United States' longest war and why the administration decided not to extend the withdrawal deadline so that more people could be evacuated from Afghanistan.
At the end of last month, the United States announced the completion of the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, after twenty years of occupying this country, under the pretext of the war on terrorism, which it fabricated after the attacks of September 11, 2001.