President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have embraced a policy of abandonment, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), a former Navy SEAL, told Breitbart News Daily after the third anniversary of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal passed, resulting in the loss of 13 troops.
“Yesterday was the anniversary of Abbey Gate, and I was on the phone call with some of the Gold Star families,” he said on Tuesday, noting that tremendous pain remains.
“And they feel like they were lied to. Afghanistan, to me, is abandonment. It was singularly the most catastrophic withdrawal of a U.S. force, and, one can argue, in military history. We lost 13. We could have lost thousands just as easy,” he said, explaining that America also lost the trust of its allies.