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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Al Jazeera Staff

Republicans furious at Biden’s Afghanistan review, Democrats mum

Afghan passengers board an Air Force plane in Kabul as the US withdraws from Afghanistan in August 2021 [File: MSgt Donald R Allen, US Air Force/AP]

Washington, DC – Republicans have expressed outrage after the administration of President Joe Biden largely blamed his predecessor Donald Trump for the shortcomings of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A summary report released by the White House on Thursday justified how the current administration carried out the chaotic US exit from Afghanistan in 2021. It said Biden’s “choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created” by Trump.

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