Whoopsy, Inspector General report on the failure in Afghanistan pins blame on Trumpy, a paranoid, ineffective Afghanistan President, and Biden for not undoing what the Orange Man did. It was doomed from the start, something Republican George W Bush should have realized before invading. Trillions in costs wasted. Go red team!

Watchdog report says Trump and Biden administration decisions drove collapse of Afghan security forces

The interim report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction called the US decision to withdraw -- conceived by the Trump administration in 2020 and implemented by the Biden administration in 2021 -- the "single most important factor" behind the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
The inspector general's report, which also cast significant blame on decisions made by former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, is one of the deepest examinations to date at the reasons behind the stunning fall of the Afghan government last summer that saw the Taliban rapidly take control of Afghanistan amid a full US withdrawal following a 20-year war.
The interim report is another damning indictment of the failed planning and strategy that plagued America's vision for Afghanistan, even as special inspector general John Sopko wrote that the eventual collapse was "predictable."
In essence, U.S. and Afghan efforts to cultivate an effective and sustainable security sector were likely to fail from the beginning.


The Doha agreement, signed between the Trump administration and the Taliban in February 2020, shattered the fragile morale of the Afghan military, according to the SIGAR report. The Pentagon, over 20 years, had attempted to create a "mirror image to the US military," the report found -- something that never materialized and would have required years more training and assistance.
By 2020, Afghan forces still relied far too heavily on US personnel and support, despite $90 billion of investment by the United States over the course of the war.
Empire building for the US ended with Bush's second term, what a terrible lesson to learn about getting involved with despotic middle east countries.