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possible. and he left after the american troops had left. the american ambassador stayed behind. in fact, after the last military transport left. i know this because my father was on the last transport to leave cambodia. yes, we do leave americans behind. senator duckworth is a former army helopter pilot wounded in action in iraq and lost both of her legs. she knows more about military operations and american military history than anyone on the republican side of that committee. in previous reports of the evacuation from afghanistan, we have mentioned on this program the people we left behind in vietnam. but tonight i d like to focus on one group that i have only mentione in passing in our previous covege. according to a 2013 report in the new york times, quote, by some estimes tens of thousands of arican servicemen fathered chdren with vietnamese women during that long war.
explicit commitment not to leave until all american citizens were out and to safety. that is not what happened, and now we have people who are desperately frantically trying to get out of this country coming to me, coming to members of this committee asking for help. they can t get that help. they are stuck behind enemy lines so please don t tell me that we re not leaving americans behind. you left them behind. joe biden left them behind around frankly it was a disgrace. let me ask you this though. senator, thanks for your help and continuing to help get american citizens and afghans who have helped us out of the country but as you ve seen we ve continued to facilitate i didn t ask you a question. you seem to want to address the issue so since you do, isn t it true that you left americans behind on august the 31st? there are americans there were americans that were still in afghanistan. show yes. and who still are. we continue to work to try to get the americans out.
i was born in thailand, but my father worked for the united nations, and to answer my colleague s question, my father chose to stay as long as possible to help the cambodian people as long as possible, and he left after american troops had left. the american ambassador stayed behind after american troops had left and in fact after the last military transport left, i know this because my father was on the last military transport to leave cambodia and the ambassador had to travel overland. we do leave americans behind but this is all tied to operations and how it s planned which is why i think it s so important that we have an independent investigation. maybe the failure here was that we didn t have a plan in place and we didn t act straight before our troops left. if that s the case, we need to learn, that so i would ask for my colleagues to consider this independent commission. we put somebody in charge of it who is not in a decision-making capacity during the 20 years, make it non-par
i think that what we ve seen so far since 391st is some americans have gotten out through diplomatic means, and they have reached safety through either over land routes or through aircraft. i don t know all the details, but i can t imagine that that didn t happen without taliban facilitation. well, we can get back to afghan nationals helping them leave the country as well, the siv holders and others who supported us, but secretary austin, the administration has said they will utilize every tool available to hold the taliban accountable if they fail to meet their commitments to provide safe passage for anyone who wants to leave the country. certainly we know there are economic levers, but can you elaborate on what the military tools are and could there be a shared interest in targeting