Former Vice President Mike Pence said thousands of U.S. troops would have remained in Afghanistan, despite an agreement the Trump administration made with the Taliban that had American forces leaving by May 2021.
and dozens of Afghans who were trying to flee the country ahead of the Taliban's takeover.
Both former President Donald Trump and Mr. Biden have blamed the calamitous outcome on other's handling of the withdrawal. The Biden administration hasits predecessor's drawdown of U.S. troops ahead of a full withdrawal left the Taliban in a strong position and its failure to include the Afghan government in negotiations was detrimental. Trump and his allies have criticized Mr.
"[D]uring both administrations there was insufficient senior-level consideration of worst-case scenarios and how quickly those might follow," the report said. "I know what the deal was that was negotiated with the Taliban. It was made very clear. I was in the room when President Trump told the leader of the Taliban, said, 'Look, you're going to have to cooperate with the Afghan government. You don't harbor terrorists.
"We went 18 months without a single American casualty to the day at that Kabul airport that we lost 13 brave American service members," he said."The blame for what happened here falls squarely on the current commander in chief." , saying he has failed to explain to Americans"what our national interest is there" and is too slow to provide weapons to Ukraine.
"President Biden says, 'We're there as long as it takes.' It shouldn't take that long," said Pence, who visited Ukraine last week and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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