{"id":14926,"date":"2023-07-02T03:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T08:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2023-07-02T03:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T08:28:46","slug":"state-department-review-of-2021-afghanistan-evacuation-critical-of-biden-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14926","title":{"rendered":"State Department review of 2021 Afghanistan evacuation critical of Biden, Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. State Department report on Friday criticized the handling of the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan, saying decisions by President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump to withdraw troops had &#8220;serious consequences for the viability&#8221; and security of the former U.S.-backed government.<br>Adverse findings in the report also reflected badly on Secretary of State Antony Blinken, without naming him. They included the department&#8217;s failure to expand its crisis-management task force as the Taliban advanced on Kabul in August 2021 and the lack of a senior diplomat &#8220;to oversee all elements of the crisis response.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/state-department-review-2021-afghanistan-evacuation-critical-biden-trump-2023-06-30\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. State Department report on Friday criticized the handling of the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan, saying decisions by President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump to withdraw troops had &#8220;serious consequences for the viability&#8221; and security of the former U.S.-backed government.Adverse findings in the report also reflected badly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1376,1375],"class_list":["post-14926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-department","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14928,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/14928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}