'There's gonna be a reckoning for the decisions that led up to this,' said Republican Representative and Afghanistan veteran Dan Crenshaw.
, a California Republican, told reporters Tuesday."There should be accountability for what I see is probably the biggest failure in American government on a military stage in my lifetime—we can never make this mistake again."
"They won't be able to run from it," Armed Services Ranking Member Mike Rogers, an Alabama Republican, told reporters."There will be many amendments." Republicans also are seeking to block the administration from recognizing the Taliban as a legitimate government.announced Monday the last U.S. Military plane departed Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai International Airport a minute before Tuesday's deadline to have troops out of the country. The Taliban had toppled the Afghan government just weeks earlier. As many as 200 Americans are thought to have been remaining in the country, unable to evacuate in time.
"There's gonna be a reckoning for the decisions that led up to this," Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican and Navy SEAL who was wounded by an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan in 2012.
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