Top US General Milley calls Afghanistan a ‘strategic failure’
2021-09-29 08:49:16 source：The Aljazeera
September 28, 2021
United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Mark Milley, appearing before Congress on Tuesday, acknowledged a series of failures that led to the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
“It is clear and obvious that the war in Afghanistan did not end on the terms we wanted with the Taliban now in power in Kabul,” General Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee, warning that Afghanistan today appears headed towards civil war.
“We need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we didn’t fully comprehend,” Secretary Austin told senators.
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