During Biden’s speech, Nikoui could be heard yelling, “Abbey Gate, Abbey Gate” at approximately 10:15 p.m. ET. Abbey Gate is the entrance to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a single explosive device was detonated by an ISIS-K terrorist. The blast killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans.
Is there evidence the time line was feasible, or that the outcome under Biden could have been avoided. My understanding of the events is that everything was setup in a way where either the time line had to change or things would get messy.
Oh, no, in fact Biden was told an evacuation like that could NOT be done in the timeframe and they went with it anyway.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/04/politics/afghanistan-siv-bipartisan-letter/index.html
"The bipartisan lawmakers contended that the existing process for Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants will not work.
“It takes an average of 800+ days, and we plan to withdraw in less than 100 days,”"
That’s where Guam stepped up and said “hey, we’ll take them, let us help!” and were ignored.
If the process takes more than 800 days, you either expedite that process, or remove them to a location where they can safely wait out the process.
The Biden administration chose “none of the above”.
So doesn’t that mean Trump set him up to fail. Sounds like the prior administration messed up and left Biden to clean up. No matter what Biden did, he’d be in the wrong (extend the evacuation or push forward with the set timeline).
If that’s the case what are you arguing should have happened, and how is the previous admin not responsible for creating the circumstances.