The Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle: A Political Hot Potato

Three years after a chaotic U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Republicans are trying to make it stick to Joe Biden's vice president as she runs for the White House in 2024. House GOP leaders have lined up a number of ways to keep the issue on the front burner this month: a posthumous medals ceremony honoring the service members killed by a suicide bomber, the release of a long-awaited report by Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a potential fight over whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify publicly again.Democrats are already dismissing the GOP's efforts as partisan politics. But with no sign that the Afghanistan withdrawal is going away anytime soon, it remains to be seen how much traction this issue will gain