Scathing report on US withdrawal from Afghanistan blames Trump and Biden.
American inspectors acknowledge the role of Biden and Trump in the chaos of leaving Afghanistan
In their investigation of the country’s turbulent withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US State Department investigators blamed the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden for disrupting this process.
In the report of their investigation into the chaos in the withdrawal process from Afghanistan, the inspectors of the US State Department blamed Joe Biden and his administration, as well as the former US president Donald Trump, for the chaos.
A summary of the investigation of this group of inspectors of the US State Department was declassified and its content was published in the media of this country.
According to “Sputnik” news agency, it was written in a part of this report: “Both Joe Biden’s decision and Donald Trump’s decision to end the US military mission in Afghanistan pose significant challenges for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the same time as its efforts to maintain diplomatic and aid presence. powerful in the city of Kabul and continued support for the government and people of Afghanistan.”
In this report, it was also written that the agreement of the Biden government to speed up the withdrawal of Afghans who cooperated with the American and NATO forces during the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan caused a domino effect that ultimately led to the collapse of the Western-backed government in Afghanistan.
The inspectors of the US State Department wrote in this report: “With the deterioration of the field conditions in Afghanistan and the diminution of the possibility of successful peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, the leaders of the US State Department and the US Embassy in Kabul faced a dilemma; Significantly reducing the presence of the remaining American forces in Afghanistan and accelerating the withdrawal of Afghans who were in danger, in turn, risked weakening trust in the Afghan government and created the very collapse that the United States hoped to avoid.
The process of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan began in April 2021 after Joe Biden gave the green light to implement this program, which was promised by Donald Trump. In the report of the US Department of State, it was written: “Accelerating the withdrawal of American soldiers from Afghanistan created serious consequences for the life of the then Afghan government and its security.” The US State Department inspectors concluded: “In both the Biden administration and the Trump administration, high-ranking officials did not pay enough attention to the worst possible scenarios and the speed of their occurrence.”
The authors of this report also criticized the decision of the Joe Biden administration in the spring of 2021 to hand over the strategic Bagram Air Base to the Afghan government because it made the Hamid Karzai International Airport, which was smaller than the Bagram base, “the only airport to conduct evacuation operations of non-combatant forces.”
The authors of the report acknowledged that organizational issues interfered with the State Department’s operational plans for withdrawing personnel from Afghanistan, so that “it was not clear who in the department was leading the process.”
The process of withdrawal of American troops and allies of this country from Afghanistan began when an agreement was reached between the United States and the Taliban in February 2020. The United States and other NATO member countries launched a military attack on Afghanistan in 2001 in response to the September 11 attacks of the same year in the United States, and since then, their military presence and occupation in Afghanistan has continued.
