“Does President Biden not bear the blame for this disastrous exit from Afghanistan?” the anchor asked
issued Saturday. In it, the president said that additional years of U.S. troops in the country would not necessarily lead to a different outcome. “One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country,” the president said. “An endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me.
Blinked responded that the decision to send thousands of troops back “shows… the president was prepared for every contingency as this moved forward.” Tapper then told Blinken that his show has been discussing “for months” the need to evacuate interpreters, many of whom could suffer extreme consequences if the Taliban captured them.
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