President Joe Biden's administration released a summary of classified reports on Afghanistan that mostly blamed the chaotic August 2021 troop pullout on his predecessor Donald Trump
The Democratic administration's summary, drawn from top-secret State Department and Pentagon reviews sent to Congress, ignited angry reactions from Republican lawmakers who have demanded the documents for their own investigation of the pullout.
"President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor," said the summary of the reviews. "The outgoing administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate Americans or Afghan allies."
"Transitions matter. That's the first lesson learned here. And the incoming administration wasn't afforded much of one," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told a White House briefing. Biden pledged during his 2020 campaign to end "forever wars" and withdraw from Afghanistan, although he postponed the pullout to which Trump had agreed by three months until the end of August 2021. The U.S.-backed Kabul government collapsed on Aug. 15 as the Taliban were entering the city.about Biden's leadership, the quality of U.S. intelligence and America's commitment to human rights and thousands of Afghan citizens it had relied on.
Altogether, some 100,000 Americans, greencard holders and Afghans - many of whom were not vetted - were flown out before the U.S. withdrawal ended just shy of the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
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