United States: House Republicans released a highly critical report on Sunday over the investigation into the US leaving Afghanistan to largely blame the disastrous end to America’s longest war on the Biden administration while painting Trump as a passive figure who just signed an agreement with the Taliban.
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Reviewing the last few months of military and civilian disarray that began with Trump’s February 2020 withdrawal agreement by partisan review, the fundamentalist Taliban enemy of America achieved its onslaught across the whole country before the last of the US officials left on August 30, 2021.
The hasty withdrawal created a situation when many US citizens, Afghan partners who helped the United States in battles, activists, and others were in danger of the Taliban.
However, the revelations coming out of House Republicans‘ report can be said to do little to reveal new details as the withdrawal has been subjected to the scrutiny of several investigations by other independent parties.
Other research and assessment studies have claimed a systematic pattern over the last four presidential chairs and held Biden and Trump most accountable.
What are the Republicans stating?
According to the Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, who also led the investigation as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Biden administration “had the information and opportunity to take necessary steps to plan for the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government, so we could safely evacuate U.S. personnel, American citizens, green card holders, and our brave Afghan allies,” AP News reported.
“At each step of the way, however, the administration picked optics over security,” he added.
McCaul, earlier in the day, denied that the release of the report before the presidential election was politically motivated or that Republicans dismissed Trump’s blunders in the US withdrawal.
House Democrats, in a statement, said that their Republican colleagues’ report had erased facts concerning Trump’s role.
Moreover, as per the White House spokesperson, Sharon Yang, the republican report was based on “cherry-picked facts, inaccurate characterizations, and preexisting biases.”
Yang also mentioned that “Because of the bad deal former President Trump cut with the Taliban to get out of Afghanistan by May of 2021, President Biden inherited an untenable position,” either ramp up the US war against a strengthened Taliban or end it, AP New reported.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans’ over eighteen-months long probe focused on the months leading up to the end of the withdrawal of US troops, alleging that Biden and his administration eroded the confidence of the high officials and ignored the signs as the Taliban captured major cities much earlier and faster than most of the US officials had anticipated or planned for.
