美国从阿富汗撤军已过去四年，这场持续20年的海外军事纠葛就此终结，数十万民众的命运也随之落入塔利班之手。

对那些曾在军队服役、尤其是驻扎中东的众议院共和党议员而言，挫败感与焦虑至今仍如鲠在喉。

美国内布拉斯加州共和党众议员唐·培根（Don Bacon）对福克斯数字新闻表示："我认为这次撤军是我有生以来见过总统做出的最糟糕决策，也是我见过的最混乱的行动。"

已退役的空军准将培根（Bacon）拥有近30年军旅经验。他表示，这次撤军令他和交谈过的其他退伍军人都感到沮丧。

“为什么我们的朋友必须死在那里？因为乔·拜登总统所做的一切就是撤军，导致局势崩溃。拜登就任时我们在当地有3500名驻军，他们都不是作战人员，而是负责后勤支援。”他表示，“我们本可以长期以低成本维持局势……而父母们不禁要问：为什么我们要失去儿子？我深知这是事实，因为我曾与这些父母交谈过。为什么我的儿子要为乔·拜登突然抽身放任局势崩溃的事情牺牲？”

这位内布拉斯加州共和党人表示，他本人认识五名在阿富汗服役期间牺牲的人员。

美国北卡罗来纳州共和党众议员帕特·哈里根曾是一名陆军特种部队军官，在阿富汗服役过两次。他表示，当意识到撤军引发的混乱时，自己不禁潸然泪下。

哈里根（Harrigan）向福克斯数字新闻坦言："我哭了。我知道这不仅仅关乎失去阿富汗，对吧？也不仅仅关乎我们在这个国家20年的投入付之东流，甚至不关乎我们未能兑现的承诺，或是那13名遇难的美国人。我落泪的真正原因，是我认为这种在世界舞台上展现出的战略软弱，将让下一代美国人陷入冲突的泥潭。"

上周二正值喀布尔哈米德·卡尔扎伊国际机场发生致命自杀式袭击四周年，该事件造成数十名阿富汗人和13名美军士兵丧生。

密歇根州共和党众议员汤姆·巴雷特表示：“我认为这对所有人来说都是一个非常、非常打击士气的情况。”巴雷特曾在军队服役超过20年。

我无法代表所有人发言，但就个人而言，我认为这是我们领导层彻头彻尾的失败。我们眼睁睁地看着这一切以慢动作发生。我是说，那些糟糕的决策埋下了隐患，最终导致了生命的逝去。更令人痛心的是，我们驻守在那里的士兵在9·11袭击发生时还是婴儿。他们甚至——他们当时年幼到连9·11事件都记不清。

培根指出，发动袭击的ISIS-K恐怖分子是在塔利班闪电接管阿富汗后，从巴格拉姆空军基地的监狱中被释放的。

他说：“我想不出比这更糟糕的操作了。”

哈里根表示："我们为那场冲突付出了无数血汗与泪水，却眼睁睁看着一切被草率断送——撤离计划毫无章法，决策过程全然未经深思，最终导致13名美国青年丧生。这些悲剧本可避免。而我认为，最令人愤慨之处正在于此。"

三位退伍军人均表示，这场混乱的撤军行动造成了深远的破坏性后果。

培根表示：“我认为无论是前任总统还是现任总统，在协助阿富汗口译员撤离阿富汗并进入美国方面，都可以做得更好。”

在我看来，我们有责任支持这些人。我的意思是，他们确实冒着生命危险去拯救美国人，却在阿富汗遭到追捕和迫害。甚至在某些案例中，你还会听到现任政府试图遣返其中一些人的消息。这实在是不应该的。

哈里根表示，美国撤军后，联邦政府对阿富汗问题的处理方式"糟糕透顶"。

他表示："我是说，乔·拜登总统曾每周向塔利班提供4000万美元资金，天知道是出于什么原因。而如今我们与他们完全断绝了关系，我认为这同样是个问题。从历史来看，阿富汗过去是、将来也始终会是恐怖主义的温床——除非我们持续密切关注当地局势。"

巴雷特指出，阿富汗自塔利班掌权后已落入极端分子控制之下，这为中国及其他对手扩大影响力打开了"真空"地带。

他提出质疑："我认为我们必须以更加敏锐、现实且清醒的头脑来认识即将面临的挑战，以及我们所作决策可能引发的次级和三级影响。" "你进入一个国家是为了解放他们。那么接下来第二天、第三天乃至之后会发生什么？"

It has been four years since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan , ending a 20-year foreign entanglement and leaving the fates of hundreds of thousands of people in the hands of the Taliban.

For House Republican lawmakers who served in the Armed Forces, in the Middle East in particular, the frustration and angst is still raw.

"I thought the withdrawal was the worst thing I've ever seen from any president in my lifetime. It was the most bungled operation I've seen," Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital.

Bacon, a retired brigadier general with nearly 30 years experience in the Air Force, said the withdrawal left him and fellow veterans he spoke with feeling depressed.

"Why did our friends have to die there? Because all that [President Joe Biden] did, he pulled us out and it collapsed. We had 3,500 troops there when Biden came in. None of them were in combat. They were in support roles," he said. "We could have sustained it at a low cost for a long time And moms and dads wonder, why do we lose our son? I happen to know this to be true. I've talked to moms and dads. Why did I lose my son for something that Joe Biden just pulled the plug on and let it collapse?"

The Nebraska Republican said he himself knew five people who died serving in Afghanistan.

Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., a former Army Special Forces officer who served two tours in Afghanistan, said he cried when the chaos of the withdrawal dawned on him.

"I wept," Harrigan told Fox News Digital. "I knew it was not about losing Afghanistan, right? It wasn't about the 20 years worth of work that we put into that country. It wasn't about the promises that we made that we didn't keep. It wasn't about even the 13 Americans that got killed. The reason I wept is because I believed that that display of strategic weakness on the world stage condemned the next generation of Americans to conflict."

This past Tuesday also marked four years since the deadly suicide attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, which took the lives of dozens of Afghans and 13 U.S. service members.

"I would say it was a very, very, you know, cutting morale situation for everyone," said Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., who served in the military for over 20 years.

"I can't speak for everyone, but personally, I felt like it was complete and total failure of our leadershipWe could watch this happen in slow motion. I mean, such terrible decisions that set up the vulnerability that ultimately resulted in that loss of life. And to know that we had troops there who were infants at the time of the attack of 9/11. They couldn't even, they weren't even old enough to remember when 9/11 happened."

Bacon pointed out that the ISIS-K terrorist who committed the attack was released from prison at Bagram Air Base following the Talibans lightening-fast takeover of Afghanistan.

"I cannot think of a more botched operation than that," he said.

Harrigan said, "We put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into that conflict, and to see it just effectively given away with no plan and absolutely no thought behind the withdrawal process, ultimately culminating in the deaths of 13 young Americans; none of that needed to happen. And I think that's the most frustrating part of it."

All three veterans said the chaotic withdrawal operation left damaging consequences in its wake.

"I think both the previous president and the current president could do better at helping the Afghan interpreters get out of Afghanistan and get into America," Bacon said.

"We have an obligation, in my view, to support these guys. I mean, they literally put their lives on the line to save Americans, and they've been hunted down in Afghanistan. They've been persecuted. And in some cases you hear stories of the current administration trying to return some of these folks. Its just not right."

Harrigan said the federal government handled Afghanistan "terribly" after the U.S. exit.

"I mean, President Joe Biden was sending $40 million a week to the Taliban, for God knows what reason. And now we have no relationship with them at all, which I also think is a problem," he said. "I think that Afghanistan has, historically, and will always be a safe haven for terrorismif we are not constantly keeping a pulse on what's going on there."

Barrett pointed out that Afghanistan has since fallen under extremist control with Taliban rule and opened a "vacuum" for China and other adversaries to gain influence.

"I think we have to have a far more discerning, very realistic and clear-eyed mindset of the challenges that we're going to face, and what is the second and third order effects of the decisions we make?" he posed. "You go into a country to liberate them. Well, what's gonna happen the next day and the day after that, the day following?"