“The strike on 29 August must be considered in the context of the situation on the ground,” General McKenzie said, “in Kabul at Hamid Karzai International Airport following the ISIS-K attack that resulted in the deaths of 13 soldiers, sailors, and Marines, and more than 100 civilians, at Abbey Gate on 26 August. He affirmed that he is “fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome.” If General McKenzie is fully responsible, then perhaps he - or someone above him - should act like it and see to it that he is, at a minimum, fully relieved of his responsibilities.īut is General McKenzie really fully responsible? “I offer my sincere apology,” General McKenzie said. Central Command, confirmed last week that a drone strike carried out in Kabul in order to ward off an imminent attack from ISIS-K actually killed a carload of civilians, mostly children. General Frank McKenzie, who is in charge at U.S. The fact that it was a massacre enabled by incompetence does not improve the situation. The American retreat from Afghanistan, with its whimpering and scurrying and its generally cringing tail-between-the-legs posture, would have been debacle enough without the Biden administration’s having added a massacre of children and innocents to it. To subscribe to the Tuesday, which I hope you will do, please follow this link. Welcome to the Tuesday, a weekly newsletter about language, culture, and, to the extent that it cannot be avoided, politics. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on response in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida from the White House in Washington, D.C., September 2, 2021.

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