{"id":1910785,"date":"2023-04-06T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blames-trump-for-afghanistan-exit\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:33:52","slug":"biden-blames-trump-for-afghanistan-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blames-trump-for-afghanistan-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Blames Trump For Afghanistan Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-blames-trump-for-afghanistan-exit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>On Thursday, the White House published a 12-page report assessing the bungled evacuation of American troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Council released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>, which was provided to reporters ten minutes ahead of the White House&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ijiFzPTofs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press briefing<\/a> with John Kirby, the administration&#8217;s national security spokesman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-198238428\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3ab4a82d25dcc6663f0d14ab8a6532ed fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3ab4a82d25dcc6663f0d14ab8a6532ed\"><\/div>\n<p>Kirby was swift to blame the Republican&#8217;s previous administration for the disastrous events that occurred in Afghanistan in August 2021. &#8220;Transitions matter. That&#8217;s the first lesson learned here. And the incoming administration wasn&#8217;t afforded much of one,&#8221; Kirby told reporters at the start of his speech.<\/p>\n<p>Within days of the U.S. troops&#8217; retreat, the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan&#8217;s capital, Kabul. Under President Joe Biden&#8217;s command, U.S. forces left behind military equipment worth <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/27\/the-taliban-now-has-85-billion-worth-of-taxpayer-funded-us-military-equipment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$85 billion<\/a>. Amid the chaos at the Kabul airport, picture of evacuees who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/17\/the-falling-man-2001-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clinging to airplanes during takeoff<\/a> shocked the world as a shocking representation of American decline. Moreover, in a bombing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/08\/28\/here-are-the-names-of-the-13-service-members-who-died-in-afghanistan-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">13 U.S. service members<\/a> died, along with more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/26\/1119724397\/1-year-later-more-details-emerge-about-the-americans-killed-in-kabul-airport-bom#:~:text=Transcript-,A%20year%20ago%2C%2013%20Marines%20and%20more%20than%20100%20Afghans,exploded%20at%20the%20Kabul%20airport.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100<\/a> Afghans. This incident <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/31\/joe-biden-cant-use-beau-to-avoid-answering-for-american-marines-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was<\/a> the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The White House&#8217;s 12-page document contains four pages that blame former President Donald Trump for the chaos in Kabul.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3860f340ec4d3dceb33ad0a229f11adf fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3860f340ec4d3dceb33ad0a229f11adf\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration&#8217;s options for carrying out the Afghanistan withdrawal were significantly limited by circumstances created under his predecessor,&#8221; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden White House held the Trump administration at fault for failing to provide &#8220;any strategies to perform the final withdrawal or evacuate Americans and Afghan allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A report released last March by the Association of Wartime Allies estimated that approximately 78,000 Afghans who served alongside U.S. forces during the 20-year war were abandoned after the debacle.<\/p>\n<p>The White House report reads, &#8220;This experience underscores the critical importance of detailed and effective transition coordination, especially when it comes to complex military operations for which decisions and execution pass from one administration to the next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-dd161b24142c21d58001b0d806aae8e8 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-dd161b24142c21d58001b0d806aae8e8\"><\/div>\n<p>Instead of admitting that the president was accountable for the humiliating withdrawal, Kirby emphasized Biden&#8217;s supposed leadership. &#8220;President Biden led a deliberate, rigorous, and inclusive decision-making process that was responsive to facts on the ground,&#8221; Kirby explained. &#8220;He focused keenly on the need for proper planning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outcome was that tens of thousands of Afghan allies were abandoned, and 13 U.S. service members perished.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1644040872227483649?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> Kirby, &#8220;What errors does the president believe he committed?&#8221; Kirby replied, &#8220;I won&#8217;t speak for the president on that score.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6a8abe9d927314ffaa458e825e14d54b fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6a8abe9d927314ffaa458e825e14d54b\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n        Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/afghanistan\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/foreign-policy\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Joe Biden<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-kirby\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">John Kirby<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/kabul\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Kabul<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/pentagon\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">P<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House published a 12-page report Thursday reviewing the botched withdrawal of American military forces from Afghanistan. The report, released by the National Security Council, was distributed to reporters 10 minutes before a White House press briefing with the administration\u2019s national security spokesman John Kirby. Kirby wasted no time placing blame on the administration\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1910786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7228,3620,5692,10945,3634],"class_list":["post-1910785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-afghanistan","tag-biden","tag-blames","tag-exit","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}