Biden administration acknowledges mistakes in Afghanistan exit but defends decision to leave.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby attends a press briefing at the White House, April 6, 2023, in Washington.could have occurred sooner and that the risks of a Taliban takeover could have been more effectively broadcast before the group overran the Afghan government.
The summary also notes that the administration could have done a better job of sharing the risks involved if the insurgency returned to power. "First, and most critically, the president's decision to end the war in Afghanistan was the right one," Kirby insisted at the top of his remarks. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby attends a press briefing at the White House, April 6, 2023, in Washington.Still, Kirby and the report both placed plenty of blame on the Trump administration for, in their telling, putting Biden in a bad position regarding Afghanistan.
"There were some assessments passed to him that proved faulty, that proved to be wrong, that proved to not shake out the way he had been given to understand that they would," he said. In this Aug. 24, 2021, file photo, provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, families walk towards their flight during ongoing evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan."Now, look, there's always going to be tension between highlighting warning signs that a country may collapse and undermining that same government. And that's a difficult balance to strike," he said.
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