Reports now indicate that intelligence reports were predicting the collapse of the Afghan army as recently as July and that the White House was “behind the curve” in handling a rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground, even as President Joe Biden was reassuring the public that the Afghanistan government would hold following the United States’ withdrawal.
The New York Times, in a report Tuesday, countered the Biden administration’s public statements indicating that the Taliban onslaught was unexpected and that the debacle in Kabul played out faster than anticipated.
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