Gold Star mother Paula Knauss Selph said Tuesday that President Joe Biden is ultimately responsible for the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed her son and 12 other U.S. service members.
Knauss Selph was speaking at a Gold Star family roundtable held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee where a group of lawmakers spoke with the families about the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. (RELATED: ‘I’m Concerned They Have A Leak’: Sensitive Biden Admin Docs Keep Ending Up In An Iranian Government-Backed Newspaper)
“President Biden and his executive cabinet must accept responsibility publicly for the chaotic withdrawal at the end of the 20-year war. Several presidents preceded Mr. Biden in this 20-year war but none of them are to be held accountable for the withdrawal. That is he and he alone, that is that burden,” she said.
Her son, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Christian Knauss, was killed at age 23 by the suicide bomber in Kabul, Knauss Selph said. He was supporting non-combatant evacuation operations at the time of his death, his official Army bio says.
“All good here mom, I love you,” was the last text Ryan sent his mother, Fox News reported. His mother got married the day after he deployed to Afghanistan for a second time, she told the outlet.
“Today, Jill and I remember and mourn these 13 brave American service members and the more than 100 innocent Afghan civilians who were killed in the horrific terrorist attack at Abbey Gate,” Biden said in a Saturday statement addressing the two year anniversary of the Kabul attack. His remarks did not include the names of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed.
The Daily Caller previously spoke with the parents of five service members who were killed during the Abbey Gate terrorist attack on Aug. 26, 2021.
“This year is so different … I’m so frustrated, I’m so mad. I can’t believe that they did that to our kids,” Carol Briseno, the mother of Col. Humberto Sanchez — one of the service members killed, said.
“Nobody’s paying for what they did. Nobody is saying ‘yes we messed up’ and ‘I’m sorry.'”