The Washington Post uncovered an army report that showed how the U.S. military was frustrated and thwarted by the White House and diplomats in Afghanistan over the timing of the botched evacuation.
Said the Post, “Senior White House and State Department officials failed to grasp the Taliban’s steady advance (on Kabul) and resisted efforts by U.S. military leaders to prepare the evacuation of embassy personnel and Afghan allies, weeks before (the capital’s) fall.”
That resistance and denial placed American troops in greater danger. Sworn testimony by multiple military commanders involved in the withdrawal operation recounted embassy staff who was drunk and others just going about their normal business as the Taliban closed in, seemingly unaccepting or unaware of the danger they were in.
Then there was the terrorist bombing and the drone strike on an innocent Afghani civilian.
When the history of President Biden’s presidency is written, the Afghanistan evacuation disaster will probably rank him behind James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.
However, the President seems to be bogged down in the same denial that froze his State Department underlings. Putting away his softball questions, NBC anchor Lester Holt asked the President straight up: Is the report true? Should we have begun evacuation in May and not waited until the new September deadline?
The President’s deer-in-the-headlights response was classic. “No, that’s not what I was told.” Then he retreated to the lame talking point about how the time to leave Afghanistan could not be delayed.
Watch Kim Iverson’s take on this debacle on the video below.
Biden should be impeached for incompetence.