Today marked two years since the beginning of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, during which it killed an Afghan aid worker and nine members of his family without any subsequent accountability.
Zemari Ahmadi was an electrical engineer working for a U.S. nongovernmental organization when a U.S. drone targeted and struck him as he pulled into his home’s driveway. The strike killed Ahmadi, two adults, and seven children.
The strike happened in the emotionally-charged aftermath of an ISIS suicide bombing that killed 13 American service members.
Despite questions over possible civilian casualties from the strike, Pentagon leaders took a victory lap, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley infamously calling it a “righteous strike.”
A New York Times…