Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks Addresses Afganistan Pull-Out

The woman who represents Jasper County in Congress, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa, says the Biden Administration must act quickly to evacuate Afghans who’ve helped the U-S military over the past two decades.

Miller-Meeks says leaving allies behind will impact America’s ability to collect intelligence and conduct counter-terrorism activities in the future.

The Congresswoman is a 24-year Army veteran. She’s joined a small, bipartisan group of younger House members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan to press for speeding up the approval process for visas for Afghans who were interpreters, as well as journalists and those who assisted U-S forces over the past 20 years.

Miller-Meeks says President Biden needs to ask for the resignations of generals or U.S. intelligence officials if it’s determined their bad advice led to today’s situation in Afghanistan. Miller-Meeks says the U.S. went into Afghanistan to ensure the country wasn’t a safe harbor for terrorists and she says the long-term strategy should have been to leave 25-hundred U.S. troops in the country to continue a counter-terrorism mission.