The White House stated Thursday it has handed Congress a long-awaited labeled report on the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan and defended the conduct of the traumatic exit, which ended 20 years of makes an attempt to defeat the Taliban guerrillas.
Nothing “would have changed the trajectory” of the exit and “ultimately, President Biden refused to send another generation of Americans to fight a war that should have ended for the United States long ago,” the White House National Security Council stated.
The pullout, ending on August 30, 2021, shocked Americans and US allies because the Taliban swept apart Western-trained Afghan forces inside weeks, forcing the final US troops to mount a determined evacuation from Kabul’s airport.
Thirteen US troops and 170 Afghans have been killed in a suicide bomb assault on the crowded perimeter to the airport, the place an unprecedented navy airlift operation managed to get greater than 120,000 individuals in a foreign country in a matter of days.
In a declassified abstract of the report despatched to Congress, the White House insisted that President Joe Biden’s administration had accomplished all the pieces it might.
It blamed a deal struck beforehand between Donald Trump‘s administration and the Taliban for placing the incoming Biden authorities in an not possible place and it stated that no intelligence company had predicted such a catastrophic collapse of Afghan authorities forces.
“The departing Trump administration had left the Biden administration with a date for withdrawal, but no plan for executing it. And after four years of neglect — and in some cases deliberate degradation — crucial systems, offices, and agency functions that would be necessary for a safe and orderly departure were in disrepair,” the doc stated.
“After more than 20 years, more than $2 trillion dollars, and standing up an Afghan army of 300,000 soldiers, the speed and ease with which the Taliban took control of Afghanistan suggests that there was no scenario — except a permanent and significantly expanded US military presence — that would have changed the trajectory,” it stated.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
