Amid criticism, veterans organization calls Biden administration “less culpable” in Afghanistan

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Many veterans of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are frustrated with the execution of President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Politico reports. For some, this would have led to an increase in symptoms of PTSD.

“I haven’t spoken to anyone who isn’t angry or disappointed with the way this has unfolded,” Tom Porter, executive vice president of government affairs for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (who is made up of more than 425,000 members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan), Politico said. “Nobody thinks there was a plan.”

But Jon Soltz, an Iraq veteran and chairman of Democrat advocacy group VoteVets, believes Biden does not deserve the weight of criticism over the US departure. “Let’s investigate,” he told Politico. “Okay, let’s talk about Trump’s deal with the Taliban which was just an agreement between the United States and not an agreement with the Afghan government. If we want to investigate Afghanistan, there is has 19 years of administrations to review, and there are about three months of [the Biden] administration. So let’s open this thing up and talk about it, because the less culpable person is this administration. »Learn more about Politico.

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