According to the White House, the Trump administration left the Biden administration with a date for the withdrawal, but no plan to implement it.
In the United States, the White House has announced that it has handed over to Congress the expected secret report on the withdrawal of the country’s troops from Afghanistan in 2021. The White House continues to defend its actions in the withdrawal decision and says that the development of the situation could not have been changed.
According to the National Security Council (NSC), the President Joe Biden refused to send a new generation of Americans to fight in a war that should have ended long ago for the country.
In a classified summary sent to Congress, the White House assures that the Biden administration did everything it could in the situation. The White House accuses Biden of predating Donald Trump’s the deal between the administration and the Taliban, which it considers put the Biden administration in an impossible situation.
The document says the Trump administration gave the Biden administration a date for the withdrawal, but no plan to implement it. In addition, the White House considers that the agencies and systems required for a safe and orderly exit were in an unfit condition after four years of neglect.
The withdrawal shocked the world
According to the summary, no intelligence agency had foreseen the catastrophic collapse of the Afghan forces. The White House’s view is that only a permanent and greatly expanded US military presence could have prevented the Taliban’s rise to power.
The withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan ended a 20-year effort to defeat Taliban fighters.
The withdrawal shocked both the United States and its allies, as the Taliban overthrew Western-trained Afghan forces within weeks and forced the last American troops to make a desperate evacuation from the capital’s Kabul airport.
In an unprecedented operation, more than 120,000 people were removed from the country in just days.
A dozen US soldiers and 170 Afghans died in a suicide attack near a crowded airport.
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