President Joe Biden said he is “rejecting” the accounts and findings of an official U.S. Central Command report released this week, which details the impossible situation American troops and Afghan civilians found themselves in during the Kabul evacuation last August.
In an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt that aired on Thursday, Biden said the findings of the 2,000-page report don’t ring true, and are “not what I was told.” There was “no good time to get out” of Afghanistan, he said, and if the U.S. had not withdrawn “we would have had to put a hell of a lot more troops back in.”
Actually—as everyone who is not an old rotting sack of oatmeal like Joe Biden does very easily understand—there absolutely was a “good time to get out.” Instead of completing the withdrawal on schedule, the Biden Administration chose to deliberately botch the deadline. The ensuing tragedy was entirely avoidable.