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Veterans’ Raw Testimony on Afghan Surrender Underlines Biden’s Calamitous Foreign Policy 

‘We might be done with Afghanistan, but it’s not done with us.’

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A former Marine sergeant, Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was gravely injured in a suicide attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport at Kabul, becomes emotional as he recounts his story during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the evacuation from Afghanistan, March 8, 2023. AP/Andrew Harnik
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Active-service members and veterans provided first-hand testimony Wednesday about the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground while imploring Congress to help the allies left behind.

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