Statewide Iowa — Iowa Republican Joni Ernst is among the U.S. Senators who raised questions during a hearing about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Ernst told top U.S. commanders the withdrawal timeline had little regard for American lives.
Ernst asked U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin if he had expressed concerns to President Biden about shifting from a military to a diplomatic mission for evacuating Americans and Afghans who had been allies over the past two decades of war.
Ernst says there is still a threat terrorism networks will flourish in Afghanistan. She quizzed General Mark Milley chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, during the hearing.
Milley told Ernst and the rest of the Senate Armed Services Committee that terror groups that aspire to attack the United States could use ungoverned areas of Afghanistan as training grounds.
