WASHINGTON—In early July, President Biden stood in the East Place of the White Property and bristled at the suggestion that the Afghanistan War would stop in the same ignominious manner as the war in Vietnam.
“There’s going to be no circumstance exactly where you see men and women becoming lifted off the roof” of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, explained Mr. Biden, who in April had purchased the full withdrawal of U.S. forces by Sept. eleven.
His optimism proved to be just one more miscalculation manufactured by U.S. administrations about the past 20 a long time.
With shocking velocity, the Taliban have retaken the state the U.S. put in some 2,five hundred American lives—and some one hundred fifty,000 Afghan lives—trying to refashion as a protected, pro-Western democracy. The U.S. found itself injecting thousands of troops back into Afghanistan in modern days to check out to evacuate Individuals and their allies ahead of the Taliban seal the exits.
Much like U.S. Marines burned sensitive files on the roof of the Saigon embassy in 1975, American commandos in Kabul broke hard drives full of labeled materials on Sunday to preserve them out of Taliban arms, in accordance to a U.S. armed service formal.
