Two Republican lawmakers are thinking of starting impeachment proceedings against US President Joe Biden over the Kabul debacle but military or intelligence defeats are outside the criminalization possibilities envisaged by the Constitution and therefore impeachment remains out of reach , also because the opposition does not have the numbers to assert itself. This is what the correspondent from New York, Federico Rampini, claims in "la Repubblica", according to which the President, never in such a serious crisis of consensus as in recent days, however risks another handicap that could put him in serious difficulty in the mid-term elections -term of November 2022: the establishment of a Congressional Investigation Commission on the Kabul massacre which, listening to the testimonies of generals and ministers, would have the effect of exposing and amplifying the sensational execution errors of the disastrous withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
It is clear that the Commission of inquiry would correspond to the need for truth of American citizens, who still cannot understand the reasons that led to the most clamorous humiliation of the States in recent years, but it would be a very heavy ballast for the Democrats who are already in Parliament on a very thin balance in the Chamber and on parity in the Senate, where it would be enough to lose even a very few seats to end up in the minority and remain hostage to the Republican opposition, pace of President Biden's reform plans.
Whoever decided to push the US to leave Afghanistan dates back to the unconditional agreements signed some time ago in Doha with the Taliban by then President Donald Trump, but there are still many mysteries to be clarified on the timing and disastrous methods of the execution. Was it really Biden who made the decision or was it unsubstantiated military and/or intelligence information that led the President astray? There will be a way to know, but for now Rampini is right to underline that the specter of Jimmy Carter is hovering in the White House, the Democratic President who in 1979 suffered the humiliation of the taking of American hostages in the Teheran embassy by the Khomeinists and was unable to get up again. Naturally Biden and the Democrats hope it doesn't end like this.
