Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain defended the evacuation efforts from Afghanistan as a 'tremendous achievement' despite the chaos that ensued.
Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain defended the evacuation efforts from Afghanistan as a"tremendous achievement" despite the chaos that ensued.
"I remember Clarissa Ward on TV standing on the runway saying that there’s no way these people are going to get fifty thousand people out of here. We got a hundred and [twenty] thousand people out of there, and thirteen people gave their lives to get a hundred and [twenty] thousand people out of there," he added.
Harrowing imagery of Afghans clinging to a Boeing C-17 departing a runway at the Hamid Karzai International Airport roiled the public. A number of critics from both the Left and Right slammed the Biden administration. Recently, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul's panel began investigating the withdrawal.
"Look, we ended the longest war in American history, and I understand why the way that ended has been criticized. I think the alternative to what we did would’ve been a lot of Americans dying in Afghanistan in a continuation of the longest war ever in this country’s history," Klain stressed.
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