We can't pin all of it on Biden. Sure, he says "the buck ends" with him, but that doesn't mean he and his administration takes 100% the blame, it means he won't just lend the problem off to the next President after him and so he plans to let the war end during his term and not to the next future President. At the very least, he owned up to his mistakes and takes those criticisms instead of blaming it on others.
Yes, the withdrawal executed terribly, but they didn't expect Kabul to suddenly be captured within a day. They thought the Afghan troops would at least fight back and give around a month or so for more time to get US troops home and other preparations for evacuation. But instead, the Afghan troops decided to surrender and not even try to fight back as the Taliban rushed in and took it over within a day. The Afghan troops had an overwhelming number, 300,000, against less than 100,000 Taliban forces and even had better weapons, supplies, and equipment. But they practically didn't do much of anything as soon as US was about to leave and it all crumbled down.
We've also already seen reports how corrupt the Afghan government was. Pocketing money for their own selves, lying to people saying it was going well, troops not taking training seriously or even caring, etc. It was a culmination of multiple factors spanning 20 years from Bush (who started it) to Obama (not choosing to leave after OBL was taken down) to Trump (signed a terrible peace treaty without conversing with the Afghan government and even released 5000 Taliban troops some of which included the co-founder and some took part in taking over Kabul) to finally ending with Biden (was naïve and trusted too much on the Afghan government to do things well).
$2 Trillion spent throughout 20 years, 300,000 Afghan troops/policeman "trained" and given lots of weapons and supplies all of which went to waste because they surrendered so easily and readily, and many more issues that happened behind the scenes on all sides. It was an unwinnable war from the get go and it was only a matter of time that it would have come to that point.
Yes, the withdrawal executed terribly, but they didn't expect Kabul to suddenly be captured within a day. They thought the Afghan troops would at least fight back and give around a month or so for more time to get US troops home and other preparations for evacuation. But instead, the Afghan troops decided to surrender and not even try to fight back as the Taliban rushed in and took it over within a day. The Afghan troops had an overwhelming number, 300,000, against less than 100,000 Taliban forces and even had better weapons, supplies, and equipment. But they practically didn't do much of anything as soon as US was about to leave and it all crumbled down.
We've also already seen reports how corrupt the Afghan government was. Pocketing money for their own selves, lying to people saying it was going well, troops not taking training seriously or even caring, etc. It was a culmination of multiple factors spanning 20 years from Bush (who started it) to Obama (not choosing to leave after OBL was taken down) to Trump (signed a terrible peace treaty without conversing with the Afghan government and even released 5000 Taliban troops some of which included the co-founder and some took part in taking over Kabul) to finally ending with Biden (was naïve and trusted too much on the Afghan government to do things well).
$2 Trillion spent throughout 20 years, 300,000 Afghan troops/policeman "trained" and given lots of weapons and supplies all of which went to waste because they surrendered so easily and readily, and many more issues that happened behind the scenes on all sides. It was an unwinnable war from the get go and it was only a matter of time that it would have come to that point.
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