State Department Finally Admits In Heavily Redacted Report That Biden Botched The Afghanistan Withdrawal

[StevieRay]

To put it simply, Biden’s lack of planning ‘had serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security.’


President Joe Biden’s State Department, which previously hesitated to criticize the White House’s Afghanistan withdrawal, released a damning report on Friday afternoon detailing the Democrat’s failure to properly terminate decades of U.S. presence in the Middle Eastern country.
For two years now, Biden repeatedly tried to dodge responsibility for the hasty and harrowing troop removal that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and stranded thousands of Americans, U.S. allies, and their families.

 

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You think the media will report this?

 

[StevieRay]

The State Department’s unclassified review, which is less than two dozen pages long due to redactions, sheepishly confirms that President Joe Biden’s ultimate execution of the withdrawal “posed significant challenges for the Department.” The confession, publicly released more than a year after completion

 

[StevieRay]

Among those obstacles were ongoing stringent Covid policies, which “meant that some new embassy employees had not met others in their offices until the embassy evacuated to the Kabul airport,” a “Lack of Senate-Confirmed Officials in the Department and Embassies,” and ill-timed diplomatic turnover.

To put it simply, Biden’s rushing “compounded the difficulties the Department faced in mitigating the loss of the military’s key enablers,” and his lack of planning “had serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security.”

 

[StevieRay]

A majority of Americans disapproved of how the Biden administration handled the crisis, but an assessment of the White House’s actions released by the National Security Council earlier this year shifted most of the blame onto former President Donald Trump.

The recent evaluation also attempts to pin some of the disaster on Biden’s predecessor. The former president, however, was not the one who pledged a “safe and orderly” departure, left thousands of Americans behind as the Taliban took over, and abandoned billions of dollars in military equipment for U.S. enemies to use.

 

[StevieRay]

It was Biden who did all those things and more, including welcoming hundreds of Afghans on the Pentagon’s watchlist into the U.S. without vetting while his own constituents awaited rescue.

When the crisis came to a head in 2021, the Biden administration did not accept responsibility for the rapid ruination of Afghanistan. The State Department, specifically, repeatedly claimed that “we inherited a deadline” but “did not inherit a plan.”

 

[StevieRay]

“More could and should have been done,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken eventually admitted in April.

 

[StevieRay]

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Biden get's asked if there were mistakes during the Afghanistan withdraw. He clearly doesn't understand the question and whispered about getting help from the Taliban