Commentary: Amid the back-and-forth about blame is a crucial fact that no amount of shape-shifting can obscure: Leaving Afghanistan was still the right decision.
U.S. soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul on Aug. 20, 2021, hoping to flee from the country after the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan.was the lowest point of Joe Biden’s presidency. The optics, including chaotic scenes at the barricaded Kabul International Airport and desperate Afghans clinging to U.S. transport planes, were grim.
The Biden White House, the report said, was given a bad hand when it entered office, with a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan at its lowest point since 2001, Taliban control of Afghan territory at its highest and a State Department special visa program that was in shambles after years of neglect.“It was a general sense of degradation and neglect there that the president inherited,” U.S. national security spokesman John Kirby told the White House press corps upon the summary’s release.
While Biden supported the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, he wasn’t a vocal proponent of staying the course or escalating U.S. involvement there. During his time as vice president, Biden was one of the most vocal skeptics of the surge strategy articulated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus, among others. He never believed U.S.
Yet the U.S. quickly transitioned its involvement in Afghanistan from a terrorist-hunting enterprise to a full-fledged nation-building fallacy, building new institutions from scratch, as well as an army, and developing an entirely different political system. The Taliban were treated as outcasts rather than a real constituency best managed by bringing them into the new system.The U.S.
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