The frenzied US evacuation
In the decades to come, the defining images of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan are likely to be the videos of Afghans desperately clinging to the side of US planes speeding down the runway of Kabul airport, hoping to escape to freedom as the Taliban swept through the country. The chaos was overwhelming. Despite this, US President Joe Biden, who decided that his country’s troops would leave Afghanistan by August 31 after a two-decade-long war, declared that the evacuation had been an “extraordinary success”. On Friday, the New York Times obtained key documents that painted a more realistic picture. “The reports were daily distillations of the complexity, chaos and humanity behind the largest air evacuation in US history,” the paper reported.
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