New evidence of the Biden administration’s inefficiency in a leaked document from the White House
A new document from a White House meeting the day before the fall of the Taliban shows the depth of the US government’s ineffectiveness in carrying out operations to withdraw from Afghanistan.
A new note from a meeting in the White House’s chamber the day before the fall of Kabul shows new aspects of Joe Biden’s government’s reluctance to evacuate Afghan coalition forces from Afghanistan.
Just hours before the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital on August 15, 2021, senior Biden government officials were still debating key issues related to the mass evacuation of civilians, according to Axius News, which reviewed the document.
Confusion up to 90 minutes
Axius says that although the phrase “urgent” is written on the note, it is clear from the text that government officials had not finalized their plans until the evening of August 14, the day before the fall of Kabul, and that their plans had continued.
For example, an examination of part of the memorandum shows that they had just decided that day that local staff needed to be notified of their “willingness to relocate to the United States.” In addition, officials are still debating which countries can assist in the evacuation.
Until the day before the fall of Kabul, the Biden government had not yet made some of the key decisions about how to implement the withdrawal.
The Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday (August 15th) after the departure of Ashraf Ghani, the former president of Afghanistan. Analysts have interpreted the arrival of Taliban forces as the end of a 20-year effort by the United States and other Western nations to rebuild Afghanistan in a way that suits the West.
