Biden’s Response About 13 Americans Killed in Kabul Attack Shows Just Where His Priorities Are – Opinion

The 26th anniversary of the bombing attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport by terrorist bombers in August, Afghanistan has come to an end. 13 military personnel were among those killed. The attack also claimed the lives of approximately 170 Afghans, and injured dozens more Americans.

Here’s a list of the 13 victims.

Marines
– Marine Corps Cpl. Daegan Page (23), Omaha, Nebraska
– Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee M. McCollum (20), Jackson, Wyoming
– Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T.Hoover, 31 years old, Salt Lake City, Utah
– Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosariopichardo (25), Lawrence, Massachusetts
– Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee is 23, from Sacramento, California
– Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez (22), Indio, California
– Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez 22 years old, Logansport (Indiana).
– Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza (20), Rio Bravo (Texas)
– Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz (20), St. Charles Missouri
– Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola is 20, Rancho Cucamonga.
– Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikuui (20), Norco, California

Navy Corpman Maxton Soviak (22), Berlin Heights, Ohio
Army Staff Sergeant. Ryan C. Knauss is 23, from Corryton in Tennessee

More information is available here.

Families are angry at Joe Biden’s handling of the events in Afghanistan. They feel it led to their loved one’s deaths. The families felt that he was disrespecting them by constantly checking his watch during the solemn transfer ceremony.

Christy Shamblin is the mother to Sgt. Nicole Gee:

“This is the very attitude that we received at Dover Air Force Base when we received our heroes home and the president continued to look at his watch. The attitude we have received is that our loved ones were an acceptable loss, and that’s just obviously mind-blowing to us.”

Shana Chappell, Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui’s mother, said that during their meeting, Biden wanted to talk about the death of his son more than hers.

But apart from that meeting when they received the bodies, there’s been nothing.

“We didn’t hear one single word from the administration — not a single word — and still [haven’t],” Hoover’s father, also named Darin, said. “Not that we would take it because of the way that this happened. Six months into it … the administration sent out letters to the families. It was actually a canned letter. Everybody’s was exactly the same. They photocopied it, or it appears as though they photocopied it, and then just stamped Mr. Biden’s name to it. That was all. Nothing personal.”

Although the White House provided a pro forma written statement on Friday (which is pretty much the maximum they have ever done), Biden said that he had not tried to speak to families or get in touch with them.

You can see it doesn’t even concern him at all.

Biden decided to talk to the families instead. He was also out of the door, according to our report. Priorities.

It didn’t go unnoticed, as one of the dads who lost his child called going on Leno insensitive and tone-deaf.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed this was “very personal” to Biden. So personal he couldn’t be bothered to talk to the families or follow up on holding anyone accountable for the attack in a year.

I am not a fan of CNN’s Jake Tapper but this was one great take from him saying that if Biden truly cared, he’d show it by his actions with the families and following up on the attack.

However, Jay Leno’s meeting shows just how much Biden values Jay Leno.

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