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Josh Hawley: reserving the right to object, here we are 6 months since the last foreign policy disaster into which this…

On the recordFebruary 10, 2022
reserving the right to object, here we are 6 months since the last foreign policy disaster into which this administration led this country, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan: 13 servicemembers killed, including 1 from my home State of Missouri; dozens more wounded; hundreds--hundreds--of civilians killed; hundreds more, maybe thousands, of American civilians left behind enemy lines to terrorists, to fend for themselves; still hundreds of Americans stranded there in Afghanistan as we speak. And what accountability has there been in this time? Who has been relieved of duty? Who has been shown the door? What have we learned? The answer is there has been no accountability. No one has been relieved of duty. No one has been shown the door. And now this administration has bumbled to the brink of another foreign policy crisis that they have helped create, having denied Ukraine military aid, lethal aid, when it asked for it last spring; having stuffed dollars in Vladimir Putin's pockets by greenlighting the Nord Stream 2 energy pipeline. And now here they are, on the verge of another foreign policy crisis, and still we have no answers, still we have no accountability. I will say this, though. We did learn a few interesting details this week about what happened in Afghanistan.…
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Josh Hawley
Republican · Missouri
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Feb 10, 2022

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