Evaluating the Taliban’s performance during the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan
The U.S. military presence in Afghanistan had been shrunk to the Kabul airport when they were decided to work with the Taliban to ensure its evacuation could continue.
Defense leaders argued at the time that while the Taliban wasn’t an ideal partner, they could be trusted in this particular instance because both sides had a similar goal: the U.S. military leaving the South Central Asian country as quickly as possible.
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