After Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Pro-Biden National Security Experts Conspicuously Quiet | RealClearPolitics
A website set up to promote the Biden endorsement, nationalsecurityleaders4biden.com, is now defunct while the group s Twitter account hasn t been tweeted from for more than nearly three months. As of Wednesday morning, the last two tweets, from early June and mid-May, were focused on climate change. From those who openly backed Biden for president, only Leon Panetta, who served as defense secretary and CIA director under President Obama, has criticized Biden s handling of the withdrawal. Late last week, Panetta predicted that the U.S. would have to eventually send troops back into the country to confront a re-established al-Qaeda and ISIS threat there.
Over the least two days, RealClearPolitics reached out to more than two dozen of the highest-ranking military and civilian leaders on the list of nearly 500 of those publicly backing Biden in September of last year. Only a handful responded.
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