Biden’s Gold Star family failure echoes the Afghanistan disaster
The Biden administration’s utter indifference to the suffering its terrible policies cause truly knows no bounds.
The latest case in point? Its treatment of the families of vets killed during the 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, one of the ugliest consequences of the administration’s disastrous Afghanistan bugout.
Per testimony this week at a congressional forum from Cheryl Rex, the grieving mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, she has “never had any personal correspondence” from the president, “nor has my son been honored or his name spoken by this commander-in-chief or his administration on what I feel is because of their failures and poor planning to exit our troops from Afghanistan.”
Even more outrageous, Biden used the occasion of her son’s tragic death to air yet again the lie that his own son, Beau, died in Iraq.
“We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin,” the president reportedly said, even though Beau died of cancer on US soil years after serving in Iraq.
His team also apparently lied to another Gold Star mom, Kelly Barnett, about her son Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover having been killed instantaneously by the attack, when in fact he lived some time afterward.
Then there are the tragic suicides of seven attack survivors, none of whom (according to Coral Briseno, mother of Cpl. Humberto Sanchez) have received any meaningful recognition from the White House.
And, per Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who convened the forum, Team Biden has yet even to return the personal effects of many of the dead to their families, and the White House has seemingly stonewalled their inquiries.
It’s all part of the administration’s attempt to rewrite history on Afghanistan.
Remember, Biden began insisting that the disastrous pullout was an “extraordinary success” as soon as it ended — words Christy Shamblin, mother of Sgt. Nicole Gee, compares (aptly) to a “knife in the heart.”
That’s despite the airport attack, and the fact that US military forces abandoned not only Afghan allies but American citizens behind the lines and left the Taliban literal billions’ worth of military equipment.
Biden and his apparatchiks then spent the ensuing two years trying to shift the blame (as always) onto ex-prez Donald Trump.
Typical Biden: It’s the other guy’s fault! Yet it assumes an even more hideous aspect when it involves desecrating the memories of our military dead.
Especially since not a single high-ranking member of the Biden administration has meaningfully been held to account for the Afghanistan disaster.
Which is why Rep. Issa is dead right to demand a fuller inquiry.
No one in the White House seems to care; they’d rather bury the whole affair.
Someone must push back.
