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Showing posts with label Afghanistan withdrawal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan withdrawal. Show all posts

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Dave Patterson: Willful Blindness Describes Disastrous Afghanistan Retreat


What happened, how it happened, and who made it happen is not a pretty story.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) released its long-awaited final report on the Biden-Harris planning and management of the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. It isn’t pretty. Though the timeframe for the US departure from Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict encompassed several presidential administrations, the failure of leadership, decision-making, and operational execution was wholly that of the Biden-Harris administration. The public hearings, transcribed interviews, and document discovery dispute any attempt to place the blame elsewhere.