President Biden expressed frustration after he heard of the imminent fall of Kabul while he was vacationing at Camp David in 2021, according to a new book
President Biden had an explosive reaction when he was told the president of Afghanistan had fled Kabul ahead of the Taliban's takeover of the city in 2021, according to a new book.
Upon seeing the"images of Afghans falling from the sky," which became some of the most dramatic scenes of the evacuation, Psaki knew she had to leave her family vacation, Foer wrote.According to Foer, Psaki wrote to then-White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain:"I’m contemplating coming back," and Klain responded:"I'm sorry. I think you need to."
The Biden administration evacuated more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan as the country collapsed under Taliban pressure. However, that"improvised feat of logistics" failed to overcome the impression that the Biden administration was reacting slowly, Foer wrote.
However, the criticism did nothing to change Biden's mind about leaving Afghanistan nor change his detestation for"the conventional wisdom of the foreign policy elites," Foer said."After defying their delusional predictions of progress for so long, [Biden] wasn't going to back down now.""In fact, everything he’d witnessed from his seat in the Situation Room confirmed his belief that exiting a war without hope was the best and only course," Foer writes.
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