Before he shot himself, an American killed four people, including his children

Four people, including three children, died during a suicide bombing at a church in Sacramento, California, before shooting himself. Police suggested that the massacre was caused by "domestic violence".

California police announced that four people, including three children, were killed during a suicide bombing at a church in the city of Sacramento before he committed suicide.

"At 17:07 this afternoon, we received a call regarding a shooting in the church," the police said in a press conference.

She added, "We discovered an adult man, a father, who shot and killed his three children under the age of 15, and a fifth person also died, without being able to determine whether the fifth victim was related to the rest of the victims or not."

Police stated that the attacker committed suicide by shooting himself after committing the massacre.

The police suggested that the massacre was caused by "domestic violence".

Sacramento police were unable at this point to explain why the shooter and victims were in this chapel.

In a tweet on Twitter, the California governor expressed his regret for this "futile" killing.

"Another act of absurd violence with a firearm occurred in America, this time in our home. In a church where there were children," Gavin Newsom wrote, stressing that he was "absolutely horrified" by what had happened.

The United States witnesses frequent shootings, often targeting schools, shopping centers, and places of worship, a societal scourge that successive governments have not been able to address, especially because of the provisions of the Constitution that protect the right of citizens to own firearms.

Two years after the "Doha Agreement" Republicans link Biden's weakness in the Ukraine war and the withdrawal from Afghanistan

The controversy between Republicans and Democrats over responsibility for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was described as a resounding scandal for America, did not stop, and the war in Ukraine - which coincides with the second anniversary of the signing of the Doha Agreement - ignited this controversy again.

Washington - Republicans took advantage of the Russian attack against Ukraine to direct more criticism of the administration of President Joe Biden, as Republicans blame him, and say that foreign policy mistakes, especially the catastrophic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, sent messages indicating the decline of American power, which is exploited by enemies Washington.

The advent of the second anniversary of the historic Doha agreement between the Taliban movement and the US government, which ended 20 years of the US occupation of Afghanistan, renews the debate over the identity of the party responsible for completing the US withdrawal in the chaotic and humiliating manner that the world witnessed last August.

The essence of the agreement signed on February 29, 2020 in Doha stipulated that Washington would withdraw all its forces, numbering at the time, 2,500 soldiers, from Afghanistan by May 2021 in exchange for a Taliban pledge not to allow "terrorist" groups to operate from the areas it controls.

Washington signed the Doha Agreement during the era of former President Donald Trump, and its basic provisions were implemented from the start of a gradual withdrawal of American and foreign forces before President Biden came to power.

The US side did not expect the collapse of the Afghan government, the flight of President Ashraf Ghani and his entourage abroad, and the Taliban's control of the capital, Kabul, before completing the withdrawal of US forces, which was completed on August 30.

Who caused the defeat?

A fiery American partisan battle erupted over who was responsible for the defeat and the loss of Afghanistan. Observers expect that this battle of blame will not end quickly, and it is also almost certain that it will continue until the midterm elections in Congress next November.

While Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin blamed the Afghan government for the collapse of the Afghan army, with the Afghan army unprepared and reluctant to fight, Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for what happened in Afghanistan in recent days.

The Republicans adopt a position that relies on blaming President Joe Biden and his hasty decision to announce the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan before the end of August 2021, while Democrats believe that the blame should be directed to former President Donald Trump and the Republicans, who reached an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 that stipulates Military withdrawal from Afghanistan before the end of May 2021.

The Republicans' attack and the Democrats' arguments

Republicans focused on President Biden's statement on April 14, 2021, in which he confirmed the completion of the withdrawal of US forces, and the start of the troop drawdown process.

Many Republican senators saw that what happened in Afghanistan reflects the failure of the political leadership, at a time when this catastrophic failure in Afghanistan was not only expected, but was certain, which humiliated America and endangered the lives of thousands of Americans who were left in Kabul.

On the other hand, Democrats, for their part, saw the administration of former President Donald Trump as the cause of the Taliban's control of Afghanistan, as it mismanaged the initial agreement they signed with it on February 29, 2020.

Democrats believe that the peace agreement bartered withdrawal from Afghanistan with the start of negotiations between the Afghan parties, but it did not specify a possible peace and never created an effective peace process, and that Trump, by accepting the agreement, effectively lost Afghanistan. Democrats accused Trump of ignoring the inclusion of a comprehensive peace plan in the withdrawal deadline agreement.

They stressed that the start of the US withdrawal under Trump had occurred without making any real progress in the peace negotiations, and Trump had to realize that the agreement would lead to a complete withdrawal without peace with the possibility of the collapse of the Afghan government.

Doha agreement

The Doha Agreement obligated Washington and its allies to withdraw all of their military forces from Afghanistan, including all non-diplomatic civilian employees of civilian contractors, within 14 months.

Democrats claim that this agreement led to the United States withdrawing thousands of its soldiers before Biden came to power in January 2021, which made the loss of Afghanistan inevitable.

Democratic Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, saw Trump's policy that led to this moment, and said that if Biden had decided to abandon the agreement negotiated by President Trump, the United States would have sent thousands of additional soldiers to Afghanistan, the number of our troops that Trump left there When Biden came to power, he had 2,500 soldiers, and that wasn't enough.

Biden had indicated that after close consultation with America's allies and military leaders, and with Congress, he concluded "it is time to end the longest war in America's history; it is time for American soldiers to go home."

Deferred parliamentary accounting

The images of the withdrawal from inside the Kabul airport came as a massive shock, and indeed had a profound impact on the Biden presidency. Republican lawmakers and commentators called for Biden to be removed or resigned due to the manner of withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the subsequent seizure by Taliban forces of American equipment and weapons there. Some also attacked Biden's indifference to the plight of Afghans, especially women, under Taliban rule.

It is fortunate for Biden - in the short term - that both houses of Congress are currently controlled by Democrats, while Republicans pledge to impeach him if they have a majority in one of the two houses of Congress, as is widely expected after the upcoming November elections.

Republicans in Congress will work on an investigation into the process of making the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, to include a joint and comprehensive review by 3 committees, namely, the intelligence, the armed forces, and foreign affairs, to find out the reasons that led to the catastrophic failure that shook America's image around the world.

limits of military power

The war has cost the US treasury trillions of dollars, killed more than 2,400 US troops, and at least 100,000 Afghan civilians, and shown that there are limits to firepower, as force cannot resolve all conflict.

A decade later, American strategic planners realized that there were no good alternatives in regard to Afghanistan, and only very bad and bad options. Some Republicans have already begun to exploit new points to attack Biden; They accuse him of not being strong enough against Putin.