Zeeshan Aleem: There’s no pretty way to end something as ugly as war — particularly if you’ve lost.
. “It is a political document designed to deflect blame in advance of a gathering storm of House GOP hearings.” Indeed, the general tone of the paper is defensive rather than evaluative — and an attempt to save face for an administration seeking re-election.
The NSC review does make some fair points about how the administration was dealt a difficult hand. Trump left Bidenon how to conduct the withdrawal — originally scheduled to take place in May 2021, a few months after Biden took office. And the document’s complaints that the terms of Trump’s withdrawal deal with the Taliban put the Biden administration in a difficult position are also fair. As Anand Gopal, the author of “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes,”, the fact that the U.S. struck a deal directly with the Taliban and left the fragile Afghan government to sort out a peace process with the Taliban on its own was disastrous. “What the U.S.
“I think there are certain things that the Trump administration could’ve done that might have made a marginal difference, but at the end of the day we’d probably be in the same position because the Taliban had the upper hand,” Adam Weinstein, a research fellow at the Quincy Institute who focuses on security, trade and rule of law in Afghanistan and Pakistan, told me.
The Taliban “had a cohesive fighting force with strong esprit de corps, willingness to fight, and commanders dedicated to the cause of winning above their personal enrichment,” Weinstein said. By contrast, the Afghan security forces lacked the will to fight and were
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