A new intelligence report suggests the government was warned that Afghan security forces weren’t ready to hold the line.
had expressed confidence that, although the Taliban was at its most formidable in two decades, Afghan government forces could maintain control without an American military presence. “They have the capacity,” the president said at ain July. “They have the forces. They have the equipment.
The inevitable fall of Afghanistan may not have been good reason for the U.S. to continue its military presence there. Biden has defended the withdrawal on the grounds that America should not try to “nation-build,” and the fast descent into instability after 20 years of operations has underscored the futility in doing so. But it does raise significant questions about how the pull-out was executed. If the prospect of a Taliban takeover was obvious to the U.S.
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