Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan offered to resign over chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal: Report
Sullivan also spoke about the disastrous withdrawal in an interview with the Washington Post's David Ignatius
By Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published January 2, 2025 1:44pm EST
National security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly offered to resign from President Biden's administration after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, according to the Washington Post's David Ignatius.
Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, spoke to Sullivan and several of his colleagues as the Biden administration nears its end.
Several of Sullivan's colleagues reportedly told Ignatius that Sullivan offered to resign, and President Biden insisted the national security adviser stay on, according to the report.
Ignatius reported that the Afghanistan withdrawal "broke the early comity" of the Biden administration's national security team, and created a riff between Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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The 2021 withdrawal claimed the lives of more than a dozen American service members and led to the Taliban retaking control of the war-torn nation.
"You cannot end a war like Afghanistan, where you’ve built up dependencies and pathologies, without the end being complex and challenging," Sullivan told the Washington Post columnist. "The choice was: Leave, and it would not be easy, or stay forever."
Sullivan added, "leaving Kabul freed the [United States] to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in ways that might have been impossible if we had stayed."
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