State Department Report Blames Both Biden, Trump Admins for Bungling Afghanistan Withdrawal

The Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombings at Kabul Airport killed more than 180 people, including 13 members of the United States military, and marked an ugly end to America’s 20-year war against terror in Afghanistan.
Republicans have clamored for analyses of the blundered withdrawal for nearly two years, although the GOP’s rhetorical chorus has conclusively and uniformly laid sole responsibility for the calamity on the decisions, and alleged distracted indecision, by the Biden administration.
Democrats and Biden administration officials have countered that the genesis of the chaotic August 2021 evacuations was laid when former President Donald Trump signed the Doha Agreement with the Taliban in February 2020, consenting to deplete, and then totally withdraw, U.S. forces by May 2021, a drawdown they say that fostered the rapid deterioration of the Afghan government and turned a planned, orderly departure into a retreat debacle….}