House Republican veteran recalls chaotic Afghan withdrawal: “The Worst Things”

since We withdraw from Afghanistanended a 20-year foreign entanglement and left the fate of thousands of people in the hands of the Taliban.

For Republican members of the House, especially the armed forces serving in the Middle East, frustration and anxiety remain primitive.

“I think evacuation is the worst thing any president has ever seen in my life. It’s the clumsiest action I’ve ever seen,” R-Neb. Rep. Don Bacon. Tell Fox News Digital.

Bacon, a retired general with nearly 30 years of experience in the Air Force, said the withdrawal has frustrated him and veterans.

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“Why must our friends die there? Because [President Joe Biden] He did it, he pulled us out and broke down. When Biden came in, we had 3500 soldiers there. None of them participated in the battle. They said they served as support. We can maintain it at low cost for a long time…and mom and dad wonder why we lost our son? I happened to know that this is true. I’ve talked to my parents. Why did I lose my son for something that just plugged in and made it collapse? ”

Nebraska Republican said he himself knew five people who served in Afghanistan.

Rep. Pat Harrigan, RN.C., a former Army Special Forces official who traveled two times in Afghanistan, said he cried when the chaos of the withdrawal was broken.

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“I cried,” Harrigan told Fox News Numbers. “I know it’s not about losing Afghanistan, right? It’s not about the 20 years of work we’ve put into that country. It’s not about the promise we don’t have reservations. It’s not about the promise we don’t have reservations. It’s not even about the 13 Americans killed. The reason I cry is because I believe the strategic weaknesses in the world denounce the conflict between the next generation of Americans.”

This also marks four years since the deadly suicide attack on Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, which claimed the lives of dozens of Afghans and 13 U.S. service workers.

Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Mich).

On August 14, 2025, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover, Afghan Burqa women crossed the Taliban flag. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

“I can’t speak for everyone, but I personally feel that it’s complete, our leadership is completely failed…we can slow motion. I mean, such a terrible decision, these decisions ended up causing this vulnerability. It ended up causing this death. And know that we were infants’ troops on the 9/11 attacks, and they didn’t happen to them during the 9/11 attacks.

Bacon pointed out that the ISIS-K terrorists who committed the attack were released from prison after the Taliban’s shining takeover of Afghanistan.

“I can’t think of a more difficult operation than this,” he said.

Harrigan said: “We put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this conflict and saw it effectively without planning and absolutely no idea of ​​withdrawing the process, which ultimately led to the ultimate The death of 13 young people; None of this needs to happen. I think this is the most frustrating part of it. ”

All three veterans said the chaotic withdrawal left destructive consequences after it.

“I think both the former president and the current president can better help Afghan interpreters leave Afghanistan and enter the United States,” Bacon said.

“I think we have an obligation to support these guys. I mean, they are actually saving American lives, being hunted in Afghanistan. They are persecuted. In some cases, you hear stories about the current government. Trying to return Some of them. It’s just wrong. ”

Harrigan said the federal government has dealt with Afghanistan “terrible” after the U.S. withdrawal.

The gold medal is on display before the awards ceremony to commemorate 13 U.S. service members who died in a suicide bomb explosion at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan’s Rotunda in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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“I mean, President Joe Biden sends $40 million a week to the Taliban because God knows what the reason is. Now we have no relationship at all, and I think it’s a problem, too,” he said. “I think Afghanistan has been a safe haven for terrorism in history…if we keep pulsing about what’s going on there.”

Barrett pointed out that since then, Afghanistan has fallen under extremist control with the Taliban rule and has opened a “vacuum” for China and other opponents to gain influence.

“I think we have to be more discerning, very realistic and clear mindsets of the challenges we are facing, and what are the second and third order effects of the decisions we make?” he posed. “You go into a country to liberate them. Well, what happens the next day and the next day after that?”