State Dept Team Blames Kabul Bombing On Decision Not To Use Bagram Air Base

A State Department team agreed that Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan would have served better as a staging ground for a possible country evacuation, but the Biden administration ended up picking the sole other option instead, a witness told Congress Thursday.
If the Biden administration evacuated out of Bagram at the end of the Afghanistan war, the devastating terrorist attack killing 13 U.S. servicemembers and wounding dozens more at Kabul Airport would not have happened, Command Sgt. Maj. Jacob Smith told a House Foreign Affairs Committee panel.