From DailyWire.com…
Reports now indicate that intelligence reports were predicting the collapse of the Afghan army as recently as July and that the White House was “behind the curve” in handling a rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground, even as President Joe Biden was reassuring the public that the Afghanistan government would hold following the United States’ withdrawal.
The New York Times, in a report Tuesday, countered the Biden administration’s public statements indicating that the Taliban onslaught was unexpected and that the debacle in Kabul played out faster than anticipated.
“Classified assessments by American spy agencies over the summer painted an increasingly grim picture of the prospect of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and warned of the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, even as President Biden and his advisers said publicly that was unlikely to happen as quickly, according to current and former American government officials,” The New York Times said.
“By July, many intelligence reports grew more pessimistic, questioning whether any Afghan security forces would muster serious resistance and whether the government could hold on in Kabul, the capital. President Biden said on July 8 that the Afghan government was unlikely to fall and that there would be no chaotic evacuations of Americans similar to the end of the Vietnam War,” the outlet noted.
