Mark Schmitz, Gold Star father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, told Newsmax on Monday that the abandonment of an Afghanistan air base by the United States during the 2021 withdrawal directly led to the suicide bombing at a Kabul airport that killed 170 people, including more than a dozen U.S. service members.
Schmitz, in an interview with “National Report,” ripped former President Joe Biden for the attack that killed his son during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 while assisting with the evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
“First off, that was the biggest mistake Biden made was to abandon” Bagram Air Base, the military air base formerly controlled by the United States located about 25 miles north of Kabul.
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