Biden according to the Journal, believed the U.S. was propping up an Afghan government on life support, which the president viewed as corrupt and blamed for wasting billions of dollars of U.S. aid. He's photographed returning to D.C. Tuesday night from Camp David
* President Joe Biden ignored Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley's request to keep a force of 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan
* He also dismissed warnings about the stability of the country from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the run-up to the Taliban's takeover this week
* The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Biden had heard about many of the risks of a U.S. pull-out from Afghanistan, but went ahead with it anyway
* CNN's Clarissa Ward reported Wednesday that the scene around the Kabul airport continued to be 'extremely chaotic'
* Biden stayed firm with his decision, the Journal reported, because he believed the U.S. was propping up an Afghan government on life support
* He and his advisers had hoped President Ashraf Ghani and the Afghan government would pull itself together once the U.S. laid out an exit date
* Biden's team was blindsided by the pace in which the Taliban took over Afghanistan and miscalculated the Afghan army's willingness to fight
President Joe Biden ignored Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley's request to keep a force of 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and warnings about the stability of the country from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in the run-up to the Taliban's takeover this week.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Biden had heard about many of the risks of a full-scale U.S. pull-out from Afghanistan - including that the Taliban could take over the country - but went ahead with it anyway.
The decision led to chaotic scenes at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport this week as Americans and Afghans alike tried to flee.
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WNU Editor: I wish I was a fly in the room for this meeting .... Biden meets Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the White House for talks on the Afghanistan mess - as the president prepares for his first TV interview with Good Morning America (Daily Mail).
Update: Not going to happen because it would then show the world that the White House is in chaos .... Secretary Austin and General Mark Milley should resign immediately (Jack Wedam, American Thinker).
Update #2: The CIA was also ignored .... CIA warned of rapid Afghanistan collapse. So why did U.S. get it so wrong? (NBC).