The Afghan government and military crumbled last August, but a new government watchdog report faults what happened then with the deal the United States and the Taliban made months earlier.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction came out with its quarterly report on Wednesday, and this one addressed the collapse. The report squarely blamed the Trump administration for agreeing to a deal in February 2020 with the Taliban to leave within 14 months and the Biden administration for upholding it.
The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of August. The Taliban launched a military offensive at the beginning of the month, and by the middle of it, they had overthrown the U.S.-backed Ghani government, with the president, Ashraf Ghani, fleeing overnight. The U.S. and other Western countries then evacuated more than 100,000 vulnerable Afghans between the time the Taliban took over and the end of August because they were afraid to live under the Taliban regime.
The U.S. was “disconnected from a realistic understanding of the time required to build a self-sustaining security sector,” the report claimed.
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