Blinken: No one could have predicted that the Afghan government and ANA would collapse so quickly
Mr. Blinken told the House Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that no one expected the Afghan government and armed forces to collapse so quickly.
"We expected and all our intelligence assessments showed that Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, would remain under the control of the Afghan government and forces until the end of the year," he stressed.
The US Secretary of State also said that if US troops had not left Afghanistan, the Taliban would have attacked US forces.
However, he acknowledged that the Doha agreement had damaged the credibility of Ashraf Ghani's government and the confidence and morale of Afghan security forces.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken agreed to testify on the withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday after months of absence from the House of Representatives.
The House Foreign Relations Committee has repeatedly criticized the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, calling it "shameful."
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has once again defended the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the Biden administration's performance in his testimony to the House Foreign Relations Committee.
Farzana Ahmadi
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