During the second hearing on President Biden’s deadly troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., joined his Republican colleagues in casting doubt on the administration’s claim that no one could have seen the quick fall of the war-torn nation.
Kaine said he concurred with two of his Republican colleagues’, Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Mitt Romney of Utah, criticism of the administration’s claim, saying he just does not “think that’s true.”
“The notion that General Milley said that ‘nothing I or anyone else saw indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days,'” Kaine said to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has made the same claim himself, “I just don’t think that’s true.”
Whether it was six months, three months, or sooner than expected, everyone was in complete agreement that the Afghan Republic would inevitably collapse.
With the collapse of the Afghan government an absolute certainty, and the deadline of total military withdrawal looming, the evacuation of the 120,000+ US and international civilians in Afghanistan should have been the Biden Administration’s top priority.