Here are the problems with Biden’s defense of America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan
'To me, the most indefensible component of everything that occurred was just the delay in getting the interpreters out because that is something that was within our control.'
By Jeff Schogol | Updated Sep 1, 2021 5:25 PM
The world has been transfixed by the scenes of horror in Kabul since the city fell to the Taliban as legions of Americans and Afghans have struggled to escape the country, but President Joe Biden is arguing that the evacuation would still have been chaotic if it had started much earlier.
Hundreds of American citizens and many more Afghans at risk from the Taliban were left behind after the last U.S. military aircraft took off from Kabul on Tuesday. Many of those trying to get out were unable to get past Taliban checkpoints outside Hamid Karzai International Airport or through the airport’s gates.
Facing the strongest criticism of his administration over the tumultuous end to America’s longest war, Biden gave a forceful – and almost angry – speech on Tuesday defending his decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and end the evacuation on Aug. 31, as scheduled.
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