A Father’s Fury

Darin Hoover’s son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed two years ago when a jihadist attacked at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. 

In the days and months since that horrible atrocity claimed the life of his son and a dozen other American heroes, Darin Hoover has been increasingly frustrated by the lack of transparency and accountability from the Biden White House and the Pentagon.

In a recent interview with NewsNation, Hoover revealed that U.S. officials had multiple chances to eliminate the jihadist who carried out the deadly attack. But they failed. Here’s what he said:

“We’re finding out all of these different tidbits of information, and it’s coming out in a slow, drip, drip kind of way, and it’s infuriating, frankly, that they actually had three opportunities to take out that bomber or the cell that was working on it, and didn’t take the opportunity to do it.

“We’ve got 45 [of our military personnel] injured and, obviously, our 13 that were killed. And this kind of stuff can’t continue to happen. Going from war to war to war . . . and this is the best that we could do, this is the best that we could come up with?”

Mr. Hoover is demanding to know why in the final instance a sniper at an airport watchtower, who had the bomber in his sights, was denied permission to open fire. Who made that decision and why? That’s something all Americans deserve to know.