Members of Gold Star families reacted to President Joe Biden’s speech Monday where he pushed that history would judge his withdrawal from Afghanistan kindly.
Biden gave a closing foreign policy address from the State Department alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken with just one week to go in his term.
The August 2021 chaotic pullout from Afghanistan tanked Biden’s approval numbers of the rest of his term and critics – including President-elect Donald Trump – said it emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine six months later.
‘There is nothing – I can tell you from my conversations with both Xi and Putin – nothing that our adversaries and competitors – like Russia and China – would like more than seeing us continue to be tied down in Afghanistan for another decade,’ he said. ‘For all those reasons, ending the war was the right thing to do.’
‘And I believe history will reflect that,’ the president argued.
Darin Hoover, whose son Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover was killed on August 26, 2021 when a suicide bomber attacked the crowd gathered outside Kabul Airport, disagreed with the Democratic president.
Taylor Hoover was among the 13 service members who died in the Kabul Airport attack, part of the U.S.’s chaotic exit from the 20-year war.
‘It blows my mind that he is taking credit for ending the war and being proud of it!!!’ Darin Hoover said in a statement to DailyMail.com. ‘WE LOST OUR KIDS for him to think that history will reflect him as this great human being when he is Satan to me.’

Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee. (left) and Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover (right) were both killed in August of 2021 when a suicide bomber exploded a bomb outside of Kabul’s airport amid the U.S.’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Family members spoke to DailyMail.com

President Joe Biden gave a final foreign policy address Monday from the State Department. He argued that history would judge his withdrawal from Afghanistan kindly.
Hoover said that Biden was ‘100 percent incompetent’ for the way the withdrawal was done.
‘He’s a disgusting man who holds ZERO integrity or any respect in my mind and has no idea how it feels to be in our shoes, especially when the withdrawal happened the way it did,’ Hoover also said. ‘There was NO need for it to happen that way.’
Christy Shamblin, the Virginia Gold Star mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee – who also died in the blast – was also not impressed.
‘So sad. Disappointed to see the same head in the sand mentality,’ she told DailyMail.com in a statement. ‘Terrorist attacks are happening. It has absolutely taken Afghanistan back to Taliban rule and armed terrorist groups. Claiming success no one else can see.’
‘He should have said NOTHING,’ Shamblin said.
‘We need problem solving for our national security not hiding behind Ukraine relief and railroads in Africa,’ the Gold Star mother-in-law also said.
With Biden canceling a trip to Rome last week that would have marked his final trek abroad, his final trip was his December trip to Angola where he toured a U.S.-financed train line.
With the speech Monday, Biden wanted to express that America’s top enemies – namely Russia and Iran – were weakened during four years of the Democrat’s foreign policy.
When discussing Russia, Biden indeed brought up successes in keeping Putin out of Kyiv.
The president also said that the Afghanistan withdrawal didn’t have the negative impact that some predicted.
‘Remember critics said if we ended the war it would damage our alliances and create threats to our homeland of foreign-directed terrorism out of a safe haven in Afghanistan,’ Biden said. ‘Neither has occurred.’
The New Orleans New Year’s Day terror attack perpetrator was inspired by ISIS – not Al Qaeda, bin Laden’s group that operated out of Afghanistan and was behind 9/11.
The war in Afghanistan started after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The pullout occurred in August 2021 – ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
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