Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a Department of Defense release that he has ordered a full review of former President Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan during the first year of his presidency.+

The review order comes after President Donald Trump suggested during a cabinet meeting in February that everyone involved with the withdrawal should be fired, though he stopped short of ordering Hegseth to do so.

"I'm not going to tell [Hegseth] what to do, but I will say that if I had his place, I'd fire every single one of them," Trump said at the time.

Hegseth said that the leadership of the review panel has been selected.

Accountability

The panel will look at "findings of fact, sources, witnesses, and analyze the decision making that led to one of America's darkest and deadliest international moments," he further said.

Americans deserve to know the truth about what happened, he made clear.

"This team will ensure ACCOUNTABILITY to the American people and the warfighters of our great Nation," he further expounded.

The disaster

The withdrawal from Afghanistan took place in August 2021 and included a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members along with numerous civilians.

Biden's approval ratings started going downhill when reports of the withdrawal reached the American public.

He was blamed for the disaster, which left thousands of Afghans who sympathized with and helped the U.S. during its 20 years of fighting in the region and hundreds of Americans behind.

Dozens, maybe hundreds of Afghan citizens tried to stow away or hang onto planes that were taking off from the airport.

And valuable military equipment was also left behind, which likely fell into the hands of the Taliban, who took over the government just before the withdrawal.

Good to know

It will be good to know the details of what happened, and for the unmitigated disaster to remind voters what happens when Democrats are put in charge.

Hopefully the report after the review will be all that is needed for that to happen.