Washington spent $83 billion in its effort to create a modern army mirroring its own. That meant huge dependence on air support and a high-tech communications network in a country where only 30% of
The US-backed Afghan leader’s over-reliance on Washington and failure to mobilize Afghans were some of the miscalculations that prematurely ended his innings in power.
On Sunday, the scramble to evacuate U.S. civilians and embassy employees from Kabul — the very image that Biden and his aides agreed they had to avoid during recent meetings in the Oval Office — unfolded live on television, not from the U.S. Embassy roof but from the landing pad next to the building.
US News: WASHINGTON: The last-minute decision to send 3,000 US troops to Afghanistan to help partially evacuate the US Embassy is calling into question whether.