Sec. Blinken defends Biden admin.'s handling of Afghanistan before House committee, answering questions under oath for the first time since US forces' chaotic withdrawal.
he plans to press Blinken on why the Biden administration was caught flat-footed by the swift collapse of the Afghan government.
"We knew that we saw all this coming. We have some of the best intelligence capabilities in the world," Steube said."They just stood by and watched the Taliban take over Afghanistan."“Even the most pessimistic assessments did not predict that government forces in Kabul would collapse while U.S. forces remained.
Committee chair Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said the real disaster was"a war that has gone on for almost 20 years." "Disentangling ourselves from the war in Afghanistan was never going to be easy. And for my friends who presume a clean solution for the withdrawal existed. I would welcome hearing what exactly a smooth withdrawal from a messy chaotic 20-year war looks like," Meeks said.
Blinken was later asked about what plans the Trump administration had left behind for the evacuation and withdrawal it had agreed to."We inherited a deadline. We didn’t inherit a plan," Blinken said.when he took an authorized trip to Afghanistan with Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., last month. The pair said they made the trip as part of an effort to persuade President Joe Biden to extend the deadline for the withdrawal.
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