The White House publicly released a 12-page summary of the results of the so-called ” hotwash ” of U.S. policies around the ending of the nation’s longest war, taking little respo…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Biden’s presidency.
“President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,” the White House summary states, noting that when Biden entered office, “the Taliban were in the strongest military position that they had been in since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country.”
Kirby said of the report that “the purpose of it is not accountability,” but rather “understanding” what happened to inform future decisions. In an apparent attempt to defend its national security decision-making, the Biden administration also notes that it released pre-war warnings over “strong objections from senior officials in the Ukrainian government.”
The administration’s report appears to shift any blame in the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, known to the military as HKIA, saying it was the U.S. military that made one possibly key decision.
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