Antony Blinken Defends Afghanistan Withdrawal, Citing Trump’s Deal

The main U.S. diplomat on Monday defended the military services withdrawal from Afghanistan, telling a Residence committee that the Biden administration was sure to previous President Donald Trump’s agreement with the Taliban and that remaining would have risked much more American lives.

“The Taliban built abundantly clear…that it was going to keep us to the deadline that the past administration negotiated in terms of withdrawing American forces,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Residence Foreign Affairs Committee.