The administration of US President Joe Biden has blamed his predecessor Donald Trump for tensions in Afghanistan in a new report.
A 12-page summary of the report said Mr Biden was “seriously limited” by Mr Trump’s decisions, including the 2020 deal with the Taliban to end the war.
But the report also acknowledges that the government should start evacuating the population sooner.
Mr Trump replied that the White House had played a “wrong game”. The withdrawal of soldiers who died in August 2021 ends America’s longest war.
American forces evacuated more than 120,000 people in a matter of days, leaving 13 American soldiers dead and about 200 Afghans.
An analysis of the decisions and actions by the Department of State Security and the Pentagon that led to the withdrawal was sent to Congress on Thursday. Republicans investigating the annulment in the
U.S. House of Representatives have wanted to see the report for weeks.
The document is still classified, but details of the results, written by the White House National Security Council with contributions from President Biden himself, have been made public.
Desperate scenes at Kabul airport after the Afghan government was overthrown as people try to flee the Taliban.
On August 26, two suicide bombers attacked the airport, killing 170 Afghan and 13 American soldiers.
The next day, the US carried out a drone strike in Kabul that it said targeted a suicide bomber, but confirmed that the bomb had killed 10 civilians, including seven infants.
The British army also participated in the withdrawal, which Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said put Britain in a “very difficult situation” at the time. On Thursday, John Kirby, President Biden’s national security adviser, blamed the confusion over the operational deficit in Afghanistan received by the Trump administration.
The report referred to the Trump administration’s “ignorance—and sometimes willful negligence.”
Mr Kirby said the sentence refers to the former president’s agreement a year ago to end the war with the rebels in Qatar, as well as the withdrawal of US forces under the Trump administration, freeing thousands of Taliban prisoners and Afghan refugees. . ally’s visa program is broken.
“Substantial change,” said Mr Kirby, while presenting the details of the report. “That’s the first lesson learned here. And the leaders didn’t learn much from it.”
Mr Trump took to social media hours after publishing the report, accusing the “White House of Fools” of “playing a new fake game – ‘blaming Trump’ for their incompetence in Afghanistan’s surrender”.
“Biden is in charge, no one!
Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, also criticized the administration for “justifying its failures in Afghanistan”. On page seven, report
read: “We are now prioritizing early release over serious safety concerns. .
Kirby said Biden “followed the best military judgment and best intelligence assessment” but “some of those assessments turned out to be wrong”.
Refused to say whether the President regretted the army’s withdrawal, adding: “Despite all this chaos talk, I don’t understand.” Many resented the abandonment of Afghan and American arms.
Mr. Kirby said that we learned some lessons after the war in Afghanistan and that it is not unreasonable to expect a shock from the Afghan government.
He added that this has affected the US policy of supporting Ukraine before Russia.
At a press conference at the White House, Mr. Kirby had to defend his release before his vacation in the United States.
When asked if any staff members involved in the eviction would be sacked as a result of the report, Mr Kirby said it was “not to deny” the intent.
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