Two US congressmen made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan as the US races to evacuate as many people as possible from the country in the remaining days of the US military presence there, taking Democratic leadership by surprise and drawing criticism
Reps. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, said in a joint statement Tuesday that they had traveled to Kabul"to conduct oversight on the mission to evacuate Americans and our allies" and that the trip had been conducted in secret"to minimize the risk and disruption to the people on the ground.
The visit came as US officials have worked to increase the pace of evacuation flights, and the unannounced arrival of US politicians in the middle of a war zone would have drawn scarce resources and personnel away from the evacuation mission -- especially amid a persistent terror threat from ISIS-K and other groups looking to target American and coalition forces.
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