Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Sunday that he believes former President Donald Trump would have ultimately kept a few thousand troops in Afghanistan despite their administration's agreement with the Taliban to leave.
Pence made the comments during an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, while placing blame for the widely condemned U.S. troop withdrawal on President Joe Biden's administration. The former vice president rejected the idea that the Trump-Pence administration was in any way responsible for how the war ended, telling the network that they would have stopped honoring the deal they reached with the Taliban once Taliban leadership started violating it.
"Candidly, it was always my belief that it would be prudent to keep a couple of thousand American forces there to support our efforts against terrorist elements, both in Afghanistan and in the region, and I think we ultimately would have done that," he said."Just as the president announced — the former president announced — we were pulling troops out of Syria. … Ultimately there's still American forces in Syria today. I think we would have landed in that place.
Although the Defense Department started planning for an evacuation from Kabul"some time” before August 2021, the State Department’s participation in those preparations, “was hindered by the fact that it was unclear who in the Department had the lead," according to the report. The report, too, found U.S. officials provided “insufficient senior-level consideration of worst-case scenarios.
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