The White House has issued this Thursday a 12-page report in which it describes in detail the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan and attributes the difficulties of the operation to the actions of the Administration of former President Donald Trump.
"The outgoing Trump Administration left the Biden Administration with a withdrawal date, but no plan to execute it. And after four years of neglect, and in some cases deliberate degradation, the systems, offices and agencies necessary for a safe and orderly departure were in disrepair."reads the text, published by the National Security Council.
In this sense, it points out that, among other issues, the outgoing Administration "did not provide plans on how to withdraw or evacuate US and Afghan allies". "In fact, there were no such plans in place."add.
"President Trump tweeted, to the surprise of military advisers, that the rest of the US troops should be “home for Christmas.” On September 28, 2021, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Mark) Milley testified that, on November 11, he received an unclassified signed order directing the Army to withdraw completely from Afghanistan no later than January 15. A week later, the order was rescinded and replaced to only reduce 2,500 troops on the same date.",
Likewise, the text reflects, among other issues, that the "contempt" of the Trump Administration towards engagement with the Afghan people "led to a massive backlog of 18,000 visa applications"as reported by NBC News.
The Taliban managed to regain power in August 2021 after the then president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country in the midst of his military advances towards the capital, Kabul, in the midst of the withdrawal of international troops agreed between the United States and the insurgents. in a historic peace agreement signed in February 2020 in the Qatari capital, Doha.