{"id":40525,"date":"2021-09-28T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40525"},"modified":"2021-09-28T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:58:47","slug":"five-takeaways-from-the-senates-hearing-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40525","title":{"rendered":"Five takeaways from the Senate&#8217;s hearing on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Top Pentagon officials took a grilling Tuesday over the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary\u00a0Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen.\u00a0Mark Milley\u00a0and U.S. Central Command head Gen. Frank McKenzie fielded questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee that covered everything from the frenetic evacuation out of Kabul\u2019s airport, to those left behind, to the likelihood of terrorist groups once again gaining a foothold in the country with U.S. forces gone.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense leaders admitted to faults in the Trump and Biden administrations\u2019 process for pulling troops from the country beginning last year, with Milley calling the evacuation a \u201clogistical success, but a strategic failure,\u201d but maintained that the Pentagon had prepared for the messy withdrawal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Pentagon officials took a grilling&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40526,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40525\/revisions\/40526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}