Washington (BLAZETRENDS).- The Government of Joe Biden released a report in which it blames the Administration of Donald Trump (2017-2021) for not having developed any plan to facilitate the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
According to a summary of the document, released by the White House, the Trump Administration did not provide Biden with any plans on how to carry out the troop withdrawal or how to evacuate US citizens in the country, as well as their Afghan allies.
“There was, in fact, no plan in place when President Biden came to power” in January 2021, the document explains.
In a press conference, John Kirby, one of the White House spokesmen, focused on Trump’s lack of preparation and assured that the decisions made by the former president “limited” the options available to Biden.
Among other things, Kirby cited Trump’s decision to reduce the US troop presence in Afghanistan to 2,500, the lowest point since the start of the war in 2001, and said he did not put enough resources into a visa system. US Afghan allies
According to the spokesman, Biden’s team took advantage of the months prior to his arrival at the White House after winning the November 2020 elections to ask Trump advisers for the plans drawn up to evacuate Afghanistan, but they found that there was nothing .
National Security Adviser John Kirby announces the release of a report summarizing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. BLAZETRENDS/Jim Lo Scalzo
This Thursday, the White House sent to Congress the full version of the report with classified information and where the preparations made by the United States are analyzed. for the withdrawal, which was marked by the attack at the Kabul airport, claimed by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and where some 170 Afghan civilians and 13 US soldiers were killed.
The chaotic withdrawal in August 2021 meant a drop in approval ratings for Biden, who was unable to get all the Afghans who had fought on Washington’s side out of Afghanistan and had to watch as the Taliban appropriated US military equipment valued at billions of dollars.
The Republican opposition in Congress has criticized the way in which the Biden Administration carried out the exit from Afghanistan and has been asking for the report to be delivered to them for months, something that finally happened this Thursday.
The aim of the document is to draw lessons from what happened in Afghanistan for the future. It was prepared in recent months by different government agencies, including the Defense and State departments.
