The Biden administration has made progress in recent days, but it’s still hard to call its handling of the withdrawal a “success,” as Jen Psaki and others have described it.
But even some Democrats have questioned whether that deadline can be met. “I think it’s possible, but I think it’s very unlikely given the number of Americans who still need to be evacuated, the number of [Special Immigrant Visas], the number of others who are members of the Afghan press, civil society leaders, women leaders,” House Intelligence Committee Chairmanafter a briefing Tuesday.
“It’s hard for me to imagine all of that can be accomplished between now and the end of the month,” Schiff continued, encouraging Biden to extend the withdrawal deadline and urging an accounting of what went wrong. “With respect to the objective of standing up a government that would earn the support of the Afghan people, that mission failed, and we have to ask ourselves some very difficult questions about why.
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