The Joe Biden White House was unprepared in the days leading up to the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan, according to leaked documents obtained by Axios.
As Kabul stood on the precipice of falling into the hands of the Taliban after nearly 20 years of U.S. occupation, documents showed that several top administration officials had not yet established a strategy for exiting the country and evacuating the thousands of American citizens and allies still left.
Axios reported:
Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious the administration was having plenty of meetings but was stuck in bureaucratic inertia and lacked urgency until the last minute. While the word ‘immediately’ peppers the document, it’s clear officials were still scrambling to finalize their plans — on the afternoon of Aug. 14.
Just hours before the fall, for instance, officials had finally decided they would notify…
