On the third anniversary Monday of a terrorist attack that killed 13 U.S. troops at Kabul airport in Afghanistan, Republicans pushed to make that deadly day a political vulnerability for Vice President Kamala Harris.
At issue is the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops in the final week of their presence in Afghanistan in August 2021 and a bombing by the ISIS-K group that killed not just those American troops but also more than 100 Afghans at Abbey Gate outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.
While the deaths occurred on the watch of President Joe Biden and Harris, former President Donald Trump, who had downsized U.S. forces and signed an agreement with the Taliban to reduce the U.S. troop figure to zero by May 2021, was also partly to blame, former Trump administration officials and other experts have said.
