The White House defended President Biden's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan back in 2021, despite a scathing report released Sunday by Republican lawmakers.
The White House pushed back on a report released Sunday by Republican lawmakers criticizing President Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, calling the report partisan and offering 'little or nothing new.' Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the committee, released a GOP-led report disputing Biden's claims that his hands were tied to the agreement former President Trump had made with the Taliban establishing a deadline for U.S.
Kirby told reporters the GOP report comes two years after their first report, adding, 'This one says little or nothing new.' He then provided a rundown of what he called 'actual facts' that he considered important. 'First, on the very day this administration took office, the Taliban was in the strongest position it had been in years. The Afghan government, the weakest,' Kirby said.
President Biden, for his part, faced a stark choice when he came to office: Abide by the flawed agreement and end America’s longest war, or blow up the deal, extend the war, and see a much smaller contingent of American troops back in combat with the Taliban,' Kirby added. 'He chose the former and was able to buy additional time to prepare for that withdrawal all the way into summer, and we, as a nation, are safer for it.
He also said there was no point in securing Bagram Air Base during the evacuation because it would have required thousands of additional U.S. troops. It would also have required a 'dangerous trek by evacuees' across Taliban territory, making the evacuation even more difficult. Kirby also mentioned that there was no handover of U.S. equipment to the Taliban.
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