To put it simply, Biden’s lack of planning ‘had serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security.’
For two years now, Biden repeatedly tried to dodge responsibility for the hasty and harrowing troop removal that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and stranded thousands of Americans, U.S. allies, and their families.
The State Department’s unclassified review, which is less than two dozen pages long due to redactions, sheepishly confirms that President Joe Biden’s ultimate execution of the withdrawal “posed significant challenges for the Department.”
Among those obstacles were ongoing stringent Covid policies, which “meant that some new embassy employees had not met others in their offices until the embassy evacuated to the Kabul airport,” a “Lack of Senate-Confirmed Officials in the Department and Embassies,” and ill-timed diplomatic turnover.
To put it simply, Biden’s rushing “compounded the difficulties the Department faced in mitigating the loss of the military’s key enablers,” and his lack of planning “had serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security.”
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