US retreats into a blame game over Afghanistan
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The blame game has intensified in Washington as the While House is scrambling to contain the fallout of a humiliating end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan and Republicans are sparing no efforts to exploit President Joe Biden鈥檚 handling of the messy withdrawal from Kabul.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think it could have been handled in a way that ... but the idea that somehow, to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don鈥檛 know how that happens,鈥 said Biden in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday.
Reiterating his defense of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden blamed the Afghan government and the US-trained Afghan military for not more forcibly defending the capital of Kabul which fell to the Taliban militia on Sunday.
The militia, which the US overthrew in 2001, has taken over Afghanistan just two weeks before the United States was planning to complete its withdrawal of troops from the war-torn country.
In a televised speech from the White House on Monday, Biden made similar remarks during which he also cast blame on his predecessor for the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.
鈥淭he choice I had to make as your president was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season,鈥 Biden said, referring the deal former US President Donald Trump inked with the Taliban to withdraw US forces by May 1.
In an interview with Sean Hannity on his Fox News show on Tuesday night, Trump called Biden鈥檚 handling of the situation 鈥渢he greatest embarrassment in the history of our country鈥 while blaming Biden for not getting American soldiers and civilians out of the country in time.
The two senior politicians actually started to play the blame game on Saturday when the threat of Kabul falling to the Taliban loomed large.
Biden then criticized Trump for empowering the Taliban and leaving them 鈥渋n the strongest position militarily since 2001.鈥 Trump responded with a statement that Biden had 鈥渞an out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him.鈥
The Biden administration is about to face a grilling from both the House and Senate over the bungled US exit from Afghanistan, reported The Hill, a US political website.
A number of US media outlets blasted Biden for what they called a mishandling of the troop withdrawal.
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