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Vincent
Published date02 October 2021
The decision to pull out was originally made by President Trump, whose administration reached an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw US troops by May 1, a little more than three months after he left office. President Biden decided to move forward with a withdrawal, believing that it was no longer worthwhile to prop up the Afghan government, but he extended the deadline to August 31. In part, Tuesday's testimony undermined Biden's claims that military leaders did not recommend leaving some troops in Afghanistan. McKenzie said he supported keeping 2,500 service members there, a recommendation that was made by General Austin "Scott" Miller, who had commanded US forces there from 2018 to July this year. McKenzie had contended that pulling out all US troops "would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government."

Overall, it shall not be easy to draw a parallel with such failure of US strategy in the hour of conflict. It was an unusually public airing of...

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