U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has, on Wednesday, said that after the completion of the U.S. two-decade battle against terrorism in Afghanistan, he has asked that a full-scale review of the American withdrawal from Islamic country in August be carried out.
The U.S. and its partners in an immediately masterminded airdrop emptied more than 124,000 civilians, including Americans, Afghans, and others, as the Taliban assumed quick control of the Kabul government.
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This saw the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flee to oust in the United Arab Emirates.
In any case, a great many different Afghans connected to the U.S. control of their nation were abandoned as the departure finished.
Albeit some have figured out how to escape the country over the most recent two months.
13 American aides were killed in a bomb attack coordinated by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State terrorist militant group during the departure from the Kabul air terminal.
Addressing a group of legislators, negotiators, and others, at the Foreign Service Institute outside Washington, Blanken said, “I’ve ordered a series of internal reviews focused on our planning and execution for the evacuation and relocation effort in Afghanistan.”
Blinken who hailed the State Department for its efforts in the evacuation said they need to also learn from it, on the off chance that the U.S. at any point goes up against a comparable circumstance requiring a quick withdrawal from a disaster area.
He said, “There are many things that now, looking back, we can and should ask: Could we have done things differently? Could we have taken that step differently? Should we have tried that idea first? Could we have gotten to that decision more quickly?”
“We deserve, to our Afghan companions and accomplices, and to the future State Department workers who may wind up confronting a comparative test one day to catch all that we learned, to concentrate on it, to apply it, to protect it such that it upgrades our future arranging and assists us with getting ready better for future possibilities,” Blinken noted without explaining the subtleties of the review.
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The State Department’s inspector general would review the finish of political activities in Afghanistan, U.S. media sources reported last week.
He is to additionally investigate the Special Immigrant Visa program, which permitted Afghans to be conceded to the U.S. as exiles, and their resettlement in the United States.
