While the Biden administration is facing deserved criticism for the chaos in Kabul and other cities, the bungled U.S. withdrawal is also the product of two decades of policy blunders.
the presidential palace. “We’ve seen that [the Afghan military] has been unable to defend the country,” Secretary of StateThat’s an understatement, considering both the scale of the crisis and the failure of the White House and Pentagon to anticipate it. “The White House was clearly blindsided and unprepared for the speed of Afghanistan’s collapse,” political analystPolitico. “Even Biden allies will not try to claim this as a job well done or say this is what they had planned.
“I am now the fourth American president to preside over war in Afghanistan—two Democrats and two Republicans,” Biden said. “I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth president. I will not mislead the American people by claiming just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference.”
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