How the fall of Kabul stunned the Biden administration and spawned the worst week of his presidency.
He said the intelligence he was given had not come to any consensus on how quickly Afghan forces could fall to the Taliban.
The state department had gamed out worst-case scenarios akin to what has unfolded, according to well-placed sources."It was not an intel failure," said Christine Fair, a political scientist at Georgetown University, who has discussed Afghanistan with the president. "Biden's essentially doing what he always wanted to do."
In a telephone conference, Tony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Lloyd Austin, the Defence Secretary, defended the president's pull-out.
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