Afghanistan war veterans know something Congress doesn’t

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Can we trust Congress to set politics aside and do the right thing?

I get that question from a lot of veterans and military family members. 

I will testify on Wednesday as one of the initial witnesses for the long-awaited House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that will re-visit the botched Afghan withdrawal by discussing the Afghanistan collapse and the impact it’s had on our nation, the Afghan people, and our veterans. 

The theme for my testimony is simple.

IN AFGHANISTAN ONE YEAR AGO, OPERATION PINEAPPLE EXPRESS SHOWED THE BEST OF AMERICA

The U. S. government may not have had the backs of our Afghan Allies, but our veterans did.

For as long as we’ve been a nation, our veterans have been a moral compass for doing the right thing, especially in hard times. When Kabul collapsed on August 15, 2021, thousands of veterans across the country watched the Taliban take back Afghanistan.

Most of these men and women veterans had paid their dues and moved on with their lives. Jumping back into the quagmire of Afghanistan was certainly not part of their military retirement plans. 

Yet they did just that, and in a big way. Because they weren’t willing to

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