The joe-biden” target=”_blank”>Biden< over its botched drone strike meant to target ISIS-K terrorists but killed Aghan civilians instead.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper kicked off his show Friday by calling out the defense “massive and deadly mistake.”
“This is a total about-face from the Pentagon’s initial denial they got anything wrong days after the attack,” Tapper told his viewers.
The Pentagon boasted that “to high profile” ISIS-K fighters who were dubbed as “planners and facilitators” of the Aug. 26 suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. servicemen were successfully targeted in a drone strike two days later. However, one week after a bombshell the-new-york-times” target=”_blank”>New York Times< Gen. Mark Milley, who referred to the drone hit as a “righteous strike.”
“Mark Milley was the one who called this a ‘righteous strike.’ It was a massacre,” New York Times correspondent Alex Burns wrote.
“After they called it ‘righteous,’ now they say a lot of innocent people died,” Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey similarly tweeted.
The media went hard on President Biden ever since his administration implemented the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Biden has been intensely scrutinized for failing to keep his promise of rescuing all Americans and Afghan allies before pulling out all the troops from the country, which is now controlled by the Taliban, an invasion the president assured would not happen during the withdrawal.
